{"id":1211,"date":"2021-08-02T15:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:28:21","slug":"america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/02\/america\/","title":{"rendered":"America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2014 Fall Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">America\nZev Anbar, '16\n\nAmerica, land of the free and home of the brave\nWhere anyone can make it\nWhere all men are created equal and are treated equal\nIn the eyes of society and the law.\n\nWhat a pile of shit.\n\nIt's true that America is the home of the brave,\nBut are we really free?\nAre we treated equal in the eyes of society and law?\n\nWomen are paid 77 cents for every dollar a man makes\n\nBlack men are unjustly shot because of the color of their skin\n\nBeing expressive is being uncomformative\nTherefore you must be shunned\n\nHow can this be the land of the free\nWhen we are sliding back\nRepeating history.\n\nIt is the 21st century People\nYet still a woman can't walk down the street\nWithout fear of getting raped\nA black kid can't go to a store and buy a soda\nWithout being frisked on the way out\nAnd marriage\nSure now gay marriage is legal in most states\nBut that does not stop the slurs and derogatory terms\nFrom flying every which way\nThrough words and the internet.\n\nGoddamn it!&nbsp;\nWe are addicted to technology and weed\nAlcohol and caffeine\nAddicted to some so we can escape\nAddicted to others we can keep on going.\n\nAmerica is a land of sliced wrists\nPost Traumatic Stress\nAttempted suicides\nAnd stone walls built around our hearts.\n\nBut still we are the home of the brave.\nWe are the home of survivors.\nOf people who wanted to die but worked through it\nThose who have been unjustly accused but forgave\nOf soldiers who though their time overseas is up\nContinue to serve our country.\n\nWe are the country that doesn't stop\nThat doesn't give in\nWe are stubborn as the ox that used to plow our farms\nWe will not stop because someone says no\nWe will not give in to the names we are called\nAnd we will survive.\n\nWe are America\nThe good and the bad\nThe addiction and the strength\nWe are America\nHome of the Brave.\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zev Anbar, &#8217;16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}