{"id":3683,"date":"2020-05-12T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2020-08-27T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:51:26","slug":"i-cant-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/i-cant-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t breath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rage rises<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">tongues of flame<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">sear bones, sinew and muscle<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">wrapped in brown skin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">limbs writhe against batons<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">lips swell with beatings<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">eyes bleed, jaw cracks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">wrapped in brown skin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">shackled. starved. raped.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">gouged. hunted. choked.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">lynched. poked. injected.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">stripped. drowned. expelled.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">trampled. airbrushed. kneed.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">medicated. gassed. gunned<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.anglican.org\/content\/pages\/uploaded_images\/I%20cant%20breathe.jpg\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">down<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">down<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">down<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">years of white knuckles and heels<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">kick up dust clouds<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">in cotton fields, ghettos, tower blocks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">brown skin burns,<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">turns flesh to dust dust dust<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">fills nostrils, clogs windpipes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Until<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I can\u2019t breathe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Revd Dr Catherine Okoronkwo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rage rises tongues of flame sear bones, sinew and muscle wrapped in brown skin limbs writhe against batons lips swell with beatings eyes bleed, jaw cracks wrapped in brown skin shackled. starved. raped. gouged. hunted. choked. lynched. poked. injected. stripped. drowned. expelled. trampled. airbrushed. kneed. medicated. gassed. gunned down down down years of white knuckles and heels kick up dust clouds in cotton fields, ghettos, tower blocks brown skin burns, turns flesh to dust dust dust fills nostrils, clogs windpipes Until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}