{"id":1265,"date":"2011-05-03T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2011-05-03T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:05:33","slug":"the-negro-speaks-of-rivers-by-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers-by-langston-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"

~<\/p>\n

I’ve known rivers:
\nI’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of
\n_____ human blood in human veins.<\/p>\n

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.<\/p>\n

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
\nI built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
\nI looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.<\/p>\n

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
\n_____ went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
\n_____ bosom turn all golden in the sunset.<\/p>\n

I’ve known rivers:
\nAncient, dusky rivers.<\/p>\n

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

~ I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of _____ human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked … Continue reading “The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}