{"id":430,"date":"2018-01-22T21:13:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T05:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2022-02-12T18:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T02:48:35","slug":"i-am-an-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"I am an Immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502564020842_58427\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502564020842_58426\" class=\"yiv8222614751pagebody1\">He carried a toolbox<br \/>\nLeaving the ship<br \/>\nCarpenter<br \/>\nTradesman<br \/>\nIrish brogue<br \/>\nHardened hands<br \/>\nBig Heart<br \/>\nMy Father<br \/>\nOpportunity in America<br \/>\nWelcoming Union<br \/>\nOne job then the next<br \/>\nDay after Day<br \/>\nBuilding a life, a foundation<br \/>\nSoon another ship<br \/>\nMy Mother and I arrive<br \/>\nA new land<br \/>\nHe toiled<br \/>\nBuilding homes<br \/>\nProviding shelter<br \/>\nPaving the way to University<br \/>\nA better life for a son<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been blessed<br \/>\n67 years later<br \/>\nI am the American dream<br \/>\nBut today as I survey the scene<br \/>\nDACA denied<br \/>\nImmigrants denied<br \/>\nHistory denied<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv8222614751pagebody1\">Lies not Facts<br \/>\nWhite House Racist<br \/>\nVile underbelly<br \/>\nAmerica unable<br \/>\nAmerica Afraid<br \/>\nAmerica the Beautiful<br \/>\nThe Golden Rule<br \/>\nRise up we must<br \/>\nBrothers all<br \/>\nTo win the fight<br \/>\nI am an immigran<\/div>\n<div>So must do right<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He carried a toolbox Leaving the ship Carpenter Tradesman Irish brogue Hardened hands Big Heart My Father Opportunity in America Welcoming Union One job then the next Day after Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/?p=430\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am an Immigrant<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration","category-uncategorized","excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulfulimage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}