{"id":323,"date":"2012-05-11T23:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T03:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/?p=323"},"modified":"2012-05-24T20:19:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T00:19:52","slug":"untitled-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/2012\/05\/11\/untitled-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing from one side of the line to the other,<br \/>\nshe was taken<br \/>\nleft waiting.<br \/>\nFrom one prison &#8212;<br \/>\npoverty, fear<br \/>\nto another, called<br \/>\n\u201chomeland security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoping<br \/>\nfor something that wouldn\u2019t come<br \/>\nin a cell made of red tape, her broken dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for something else<br \/>\nfinding no mercy<br \/>\nreturned to the same.<br \/>\nReturned to an unfamiliar land<br \/>\nparentless<br \/>\nliving on the streets<br \/>\nalone and cold<br \/>\nsold into labor<br \/>\ntrafficked for sex.<\/p>\n<p>Thinks to herself,<br \/>\nit could be so simple<br \/>\nin a world without<br \/>\nlines drawn in the sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing from one side of the line to the other, she was taken left waiting. From one prison &#8212; poverty, fear to another, called \u201chomeland security.\u201d Hoping for something that wouldn\u2019t come in a cell made of red tape, her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/2012\/05\/11\/untitled-poem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33363,33369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detention-and-deportation","category-undocumented-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/children-of-immigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}