{"id":506,"date":"1988-02-08T23:23:22","date_gmt":"1988-02-09T07:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2011-05-21T23:53:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T06:53:37","slug":"victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/02\/08\/victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once when my father&#8217;s fathers met your people<br \/>\nAnd you held your hands out for us to take<br \/>\nThen when my father&#8217;s fathers took your hands<br \/>\nAnd hancuffed you for their greediness&#8217; sake.<\/p>\n<p>You are a victim of circumstance<br \/>\nYou are a victim of the color of your face<br \/>\nYou are a victim of me it&#8217;s true<br \/>\nYou are a victim of the human race.<\/p>\n<p>Now some land we took is no good to you.<br \/>\nThat doesn&#8217;t make it any better for us.<br \/>\nWe still took your land and despoiled it.<br \/>\nBecause soon it will also be no good to us.<\/p>\n<p>You are a victim of circumstance<br \/>\nYou are a victim of the color of my face<br \/>\nYou are a victim of you it&#8217;s true<br \/>\nYou are a victim of the human race.<\/p>\n<p>Other land we took from your father&#8217;s fathers<br \/>\nIs just as when we took it from their naive hands<br \/>\nI know that I was not a part of those,<br \/>\nI wish we&#8217;d give you back your native lands.<\/p>\n<p>You are a victim of circumstance<br \/>\nYou are a victim of the color of your face<br \/>\nYou are a victim of me it&#8217;s true<br \/>\nBut you&#8217;re a member of the human race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once when my father&#8217;s fathers met your people<br \/> And you held your hands out for us to take<br \/> Then when my father&#8217;s fathers took your hands<br \/> And hancuffed you for their greediness&#8217; sake.<\/p>\n<p>You are a victim of circumstance<br \/> You are a victim of the color of your face<br \/> You are a victim of me [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}