{"id":18576,"date":"2022-01-09T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18576"},"modified":"2022-01-09T20:58:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T01:58:53","slug":"in-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/01\/09\/in-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"In blue\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>After Ann Petry in conversation with \u201cBuilders\u201d The Family by Jacob Lawrence<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I see your faces and wonder\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the house they are taking down\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is yours<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You seem to be walking away<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the home<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The home you put your name on<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cripples piece by piece\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the hands of blue-collar workers\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like you, no choice, doing what they\u2019re told\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We see semblance of the boy\u2019s future\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collared in blue<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wonder about the women\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If their lives will be as full of hardship\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Lutie Johnson on 116th street\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or if they got off that street\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And are now heading back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Ann Petry in conversation with \u201cBuilders\u201d The Family by Jacob Lawrence I see your faces and wonder\u00a0 If the house they are taking down\u00a0 Is yours You seem to be walking away As the home The home you put your name on Cripples piece by piece\u00a0 At the hands of blue-collar workers\u00a0\u00a0 Like you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2229,"featured_media":15504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1334],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18577,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions\/18577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}