{"id":182858,"date":"2021-04-26T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=182858"},"modified":"2021-04-16T04:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T03:38:03","slug":"i-wake-to-the-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/04\/i-wake-to-the-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wake to the Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_182860\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/manifestacion-demonstration-1934-300x300-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182860\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/manifestacion-demonstration-1934-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/manifestacion-demonstration-1934-300x300-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/manifestacion-demonstration-1934-300x300-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manifestaci\u00f3n (Demonstration) 1934<br \/>Antonio Berni, WikiArt<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"Poetry\">Today for the first time in four<br \/>\nyears, I go to the computer<br \/>\nwithout dread about what new<br \/>\nhorror is done or pending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Poetry\">Hope has felt dangerous,<br \/>\nremote, unlikely. I dare now<br \/>\nto feel it, cradling my old<br \/>\nbody around its fragile<\/p>\n<p class=\"Poetry\">warmth. I want to believe,<br \/>\nscarcely dare, looking over<br \/>\nmy shoulder at those who<br \/>\nwant to kill people like me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Poetry\">Although it shares the sky<br \/>\nwith blood, a rainbow gleams.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span class=\"author-bio-name\">Marge Piercy<\/span> is the author of many books of poetry, most recently <\/em>On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/2021\/04\/01\/i-wake-to-the-possible\/?utm_source=MR+Email+List&amp;utm_campaign=0116995ac6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_04_09_08_42&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_4f879628ac-0116995ac6-295785577&amp;mc_cid=0116995ac6&amp;mc_eid=c82a1f20a9\" >Go to Original &#8211; monthlyreview.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today for the first time in four<br \/>\nyears, I go to the computer<br \/>\nwithout dread about what new<br \/>\nhorror is done or pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":182860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-182858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}