{"id":382,"date":"2006-05-29T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/4-30-92-i-hate-where-i-live-part-2\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T22:45:24","slug":"4-30-92-i-hate-where-i-live-part-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=382","title":{"rendered":"4-30-92 I Hate Where I Live (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=382\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>4\/29-30\/92<\/p>\n<p><strong> I Hate Where I Live (part 2)<br \/>\n(a prayer for Los Angeles)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Utter disbelief<br \/>\nWhen beating a man with a stick 56 times<br \/>\nIs not a crime<br \/>\nPowerless<br \/>\nAs a black man face down on Foothill Boulevard<br \/>\nWhile I watch the city burn<br \/>\nAngry people breaking bottles and bones<br \/>\nRabid christening of innocent drivers<br \/>\nUpon an asphalt cross<\/p>\n<p>Anger becomes opportunity<br \/>\nGreed becomes a slashing razor<br \/>\nAcross upturned wrists and straining necks<br \/>\nThe blood of progress spilling quickly<br \/>\nInto the littered streets<\/p>\n<p>Sadness to the very core of my being<br \/>\nIs as close as can be written here<br \/>\nTo the way I feel<br \/>\nThrough the icy numbness<br \/>\nAnd flickering anger<\/p>\n<p>So tonight I offer a prayer<br \/>\nTo this city and it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\/29-30\/92 I Hate Where I Live (part 2) (a prayer for Los Angeles) Utter disbelief When beating a man with a stick 56 times Is not a crime Powerless As a black man face down on Foothill Boulevard While I watch the city burn Angry people breaking bottles and bones Rabid christening of innocent drivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-6a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}