{"id":31179,"date":"2017-12-13T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=31179"},"modified":"2017-12-13T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:35:03","slug":"daybreak-in-alabama-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/12\/13\/daybreak-in-alabama-langston-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daybreak in Alabama &#8211; Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Langston <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/1-parks_hughes1.jpg\" alt=\"1 parks_hughes\" title=\"1 parks_hughes\" width=\"366\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/1-parks_hughes1.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/1-parks_hughes1-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto by Gordon Parks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/daybreak-in-alabama\/\">Daybreak in Alabama <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Daybreak In Alabama &#8211; Poem by Langston Hughes<\/p>\n<p>When I get to be a composer<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna write me some music about<br \/>\nDaybreak in Alabama<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m gonna put the purtiest songs in it<br \/>\nRising out of the ground like a swamp mist<br \/>\nAnd falling out of heaven like soft dew.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna put some tall tall trees in it<br \/>\nAnd the scent of pine needles<br \/>\nAnd the smell of red clay after rain<br \/>\nAnd long red necks<br \/>\nAnd poppy colored faces<br \/>\nAnd big brown arms<br \/>\nAnd the field daisy eyes<br \/>\nOf black and white black white black people<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m gonna put white hands<br \/>\nAnd black hands and brown and yellow hands<br \/>\nAnd red clay earth hands in it<br \/>\nTouching everybody with kind fingers<br \/>\nAnd touching each other natural as dew<br \/>\nIn that dawn of music when I<br \/>\nGet to be a composer<br \/>\nAnd write about daybreak<br \/>\nIn Alabama.<br \/>\nLangston Hughes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/02\/01\/juke-box-love-song\/\">Jukebox Love song (previous post)<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langston Photo by Gordon Parks Daybreak in Alabama Daybreak In Alabama &#8211; Poem by Langston Hughes When I get to be a composer I&#8217;m gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I&#8217;m gonna put the purtiest songs in it Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist And falling out of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/12\/13\/daybreak-in-alabama-langston-hughes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daybreak in Alabama &#8211; Langston Hughes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}