{"id":297,"date":"2013-05-05T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T23:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/?p=297"},"modified":"2016-07-11T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:40:18","slug":"0505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2013\/05\/05\/0505\/","title":{"rendered":"0505"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/images\/052013\/0505.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>0505<br \/>\nSoy bi-pedal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Legal Alien<\/strong><br \/>\nby Pat Mora<\/p>\n<p>Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural,<br \/>\nable to slip from &#8220;How&#8217;s life?&#8221;<br \/>\nto &#8220;Me&#8217;stan volviendo loca,&#8221;<br \/>\nable to sit in a paneled office<br \/>\ndrafting memos in smooth English,<br \/>\nable to order in fluent Spanish<br \/>\nat a Mexican restaurant,<br \/>\nAmerican but hyphenated,<br \/>\nviewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,<br \/>\nperhaps inferior, definitely different,<br \/>\nviewed by Mexicans as alien,<br \/>\n(their eyes say, &#8220;You may speak<br \/>\nSpanish but you&#8217;re not like me&#8221;)<br \/>\nan American to Mexicans<br \/>\na Mexican to Americans<br \/>\na handy token<br \/>\nsliding back and forth<br \/>\nbetween the fringes of both worlds<br \/>\nby smiling<br \/>\nby masking the discomfort<br \/>\nof being pre-judged<br \/>\nBi-laterally.<\/p>\n<button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to Poem<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"0505 Soy bi-pedal Legal Alien by Pat Mora Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural, able to slip from \\\"How\\'s life?\\\" to \\\"Me\\'stan volviendo loca,\\\" able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, American but hyphenated, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different, viewed by Mexicans as alien, (their eyes say, \\\"You may speak Spanish but you\\'re not like me\\\") an American to Mexicans a Mexican to Americans a handy token sliding back and forth between the fringes of both worlds by smiling by masking the discomfort of being pre-judged Bi-laterally.\", \"UK English Male\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n    \n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=stickpersonpoet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0505 Soy bi-pedal Legal Alien by Pat Mora Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural, able to slip from &#8220;How&#8217;s life?&#8221; to &#8220;Me&#8217;stan volviendo loca,&#8221; able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, American but hyphenated, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2013\/05\/05\/0505\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">0505<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic","tag-flags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}