{"id":592,"date":"2004-05-03T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=592"},"modified":"2004-05-03T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T20:49:18","slug":"poem-in-your-pocket-week-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/03\/poem-in-your-pocket-week-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem In Your Pocket Week: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"20\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">\n<tr>\n<td><strong>made in the u.s.a.<\/strong>i think i lost my father&#8217;s jacket.<\/p>\n<p>the beat up navy blue one,<br \/>\nwith its threads all worn,<br \/>\nsleeves all stained<br \/>\nand zipper broken.<\/p>\n<p>it was his first jacket here in america,<br \/>\nthe cloth as old as i.<\/p>\n<p>he doesn&#8217;t even know i&#8217;ve been wearing it,<br \/>\ndragging it to school with me,<br \/>\ntying it around my waist,<br \/>\nwrapping it around my body.<br \/>\nthe sleeves are too long and it&#8217;s really baggy,<br \/>\nbut it keeps me warm<br \/>\nand i like it.<\/p>\n<p>people often compliment it.<br \/>\nnice jacket, they say, and my hands sit in the pockets<br \/>\nand my face lights up<br \/>\nproud.<\/p>\n<p>it was his first jacket here in america, i say<br \/>\neager and ready to tell them the story<br \/>\nour story of how we came.<br \/>\noh, they say, and move on<br \/>\nleaving me there.<br \/>\nalone.<\/p>\n<p>they don&#8217;t get it,<br \/>\ni realize.<br \/>\nhow much the jacket means<br \/>\nhow much the jacket says.<br \/>\nit&#8217;s more important<br \/>\nthan any plastic green card or stamped up passport.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s our flag.<\/p>\n<p>so you see i have to find that jacket.<br \/>\ni must.<\/p>\n<p>or people will forget<br \/>\nthat i belong here<br \/>\njust like they do.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Christine Castro<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"\/2004\/05\/03\/poem-in-your-pocket-week-introduction\/\">What&#8217;s Poem in Your Pocket Week?<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>made in the u.s.a.i think i lost my father&#8217;s jacket. the beat up navy blue one, with its threads all worn, sleeves all stained and zipper broken. it was his first jacket here in america, the cloth as old as i. he doesn&#8217;t even know i&#8217;ve been wearing it, dragging it to school with me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}