{"id":149005,"date":"2015-06-21T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/21\/jazzforthecaptain-my-heart-is-broken-today\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:33:25","slug":"jazzforthecaptain-my-heart-is-broken-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/21\/jazzforthecaptain-my-heart-is-broken-today\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-149005 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/21\/jazzforthecaptain-my-heart-is-broken-today\/attachment\/149006\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_nq7ff9h3en1qbn3jfo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_nq7ff9h3en1qbn3jfo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_nq7ff9h3en1qbn3jfo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazzforthecaptain.tumblr.com\/post\/121936151528\/my-heart-is-broken-today-when-i-woke-up-it-seemed\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">jazzforthecaptain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My heart is broken today. When I woke up it seemed like I shouldn\u2019t even bother to get up. Why paint and write in a world like this? A friend encouraged me to try anyway. What pain and hopelessness and fear I feel is trivial compared to the families and friends grieving lost loved ones today and the communities across this country wondering not if &#8211; but when &#8211; racial violence will happen again.<\/p>\n<p>I want a country where I never feel the need to paint this again. I want justice for State Senator Reverend Clementa Pinckney, Susie Jackson, Tywanza Sanders, Cynthia Hurd, Reverend Daniel Simmons, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Ethel Lance, Myra Thompson, Reverend DePayne Middleton, and the hundreds more who have already died this year, and last year, and the year before that. America is a graveyard, and what hurts the worst is knowing we are capable of so much better than this but we choose to do so little.<\/p>\n<p>Black lives matter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jazzforthecaptain: My heart is broken today. When I woke up it seemed like I shouldn\u2019t even bother to get up. Why paint and write in a world like this? A friend encouraged me to try anyway. What pain and hopelessness and fear I feel is trivial compared to the families and friends grieving lost loved &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/21\/jazzforthecaptain-my-heart-is-broken-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[109,16753,17033,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149007,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149005\/revisions\/149007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}