{"id":2225,"date":"2010-11-02T19:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T00:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2010-11-02T19:32:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T00:32:35","slug":"reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=2225","title":{"rendered":"Reflection&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in line<\/p>\n<p>People crowding around me.<\/p>\n<p>We line up by letter of last name.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder when they&#8217;ll figure out &#8220;I-O&#8221; always has the most people.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long I&#8217;ll have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>My feet hurt.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long day.<\/p>\n<p>Then.<\/p>\n<p>I think of the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Of the Iraqi woman.<\/p>\n<p>Raising her ink-stained finger.<\/p>\n<p>A rush of emotion fills me<\/p>\n<p>And I realize.<\/p>\n<p>Remember.<\/p>\n<p>Remind myself.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the people who went before me.<\/p>\n<p>Who dared to raise their voices.<\/p>\n<p>Who sat in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Who died because they fought to change the system.<\/p>\n<p>Who died to protect the basic tenets of our country.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly it didn&#8217;t seem so bad.<\/p>\n<p>To wait in line.<\/p>\n<p>To exercise my right.<\/p>\n<p>To vote.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iraq-vote by plazajen, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/5141513222\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1387\/5141513222_5b45c4bf70.jpg\" alt=\"iraq-vote\" width=\"313\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in line People crowding around me. We line up by letter of last name. I wonder when they&#8217;ll figure out &#8220;I-O&#8221; always has the most people. I wonder how long I&#8217;ll have to wait. My feet hurt. It&#8217;s been a long day. Then. I think of the photo. Of the Iraqi woman. Raising her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,45,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}