{"id":981,"date":"2024-08-02T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2024-08-02T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T12:27:05","slug":"our-blood-is-our-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Our blood is our nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\"Our blood is our nation.\"<br><br>I took those words with me this morning.<br><br>I kept them in the pocket of the rain jacket I wear every day, with the hood on, zipped up to my chin to hide my hair, the emblem of White womanhood that I shaved off once a month for seventeen years, like a ritual, when I was a Lefty tormented by \"gender dysphoria,\" hair that has now grown out long and luxurious, a gift to my husband, a magnet to the black and brown men who cat call, follow me down the street, reach out to grab me, who take it personally when I ignore their \"good morning, honey,\" as I walk five blocks to the bus stop at 6am to labor for the Jew, to support my family, to survive.<br><br>In fact, I'm keeping those words.<br><br>Our blood is our nation.<br><br>I hope you don't mind.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>July 9, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our blood is our nation.&#8221;I took those words with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=981\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our blood is our nation<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,2],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-47","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}