{"id":1364,"date":"2008-11-26T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2008-11-26T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:51:27","slug":"thanksgiving-odes-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/26\/thanksgiving-odes-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Odes This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This just got sent to me, and it seems so fitting for Thanksgiving this year–a poem, by Langston Hughes:<\/p>\n

I, too, sing America.
\nI am the darker brother.
\nThey send me to eat in the kitchen
\nWhen company comes,
\nBut I laugh,
\nAnd eat well,
\nAnd grow strong.
\nTomorrow,
\nI’ll be at the table
\nWhen company comes.
\nNobody’ll dare
\nSay to me,
\n“Eat in the kitchen,”
\nThen.
\nBesides,
\nThey’ll see how beautiful I am
\nAnd be ashamed –
\nI, too, am America.<\/p>\n

– Langston Hughes, 1925<\/p>\n

See also Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again”<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And thank you, Jessie, for sending these! Here’s wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving, filled with stuffing and gratitude and love.\u00c2\u00a0 Me?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll be stuffing myself with my Jewish family, <\/a>on the holiday few in my family this year feel ambivalent about.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I always feel ambivalent about the turkeys, but that’s just the guilty carnivore in me.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, my parents get to meet their grandkitten!\u00c2\u00a0 Off to bake the pies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just got sent to me, and it seems so fitting for Thanksgiving this year–a poem, by Langston Hughes: I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21733],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-racial-equality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}