{"id":4240,"date":"2022-01-21T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T17:20:45","slug":"4240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/2022\/01\/21\/4240\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;The lies I could tell,<\/div>\n<div>when I was growing up<\/div>\n<div>light-bright, near-white,<\/div>\n<div>high-yellow, red-boned<\/div>\n<div>in a black place,<\/div>\n<div>were just white lies&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This poem white lies uses a sarcastic tone when speaking on lies basically telling the readers that they lied a lot growing up and they clearly told different lies ever time and they were bad or good \u00a0because the narrator says &#8220;light-bright, near-white,<\/p>\n<div>high-yellow, red-bonedin a black place,were just white lies&#8221; and usually when people say that it\u2019s because they are lying or lied regularly.<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"c-hdgSans c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline\"><\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-feature-sub c-feature-sub_vast\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We real cool. We<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Left school. We<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lurk late. We<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Strike straight. We<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sing sin. We<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thin gin. We<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jazz June. We<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Die soon<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-feature-bd\">\n<div class=\"o-poem isActive\" data-view=\"PoemView\">Another poem that I chose by Gwendolyn Brooks called we real cool reminds me of how people now days are in this new generation thinking they are so cool and doing whatever they want because it looks good but not realizing later on in life it can kill you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The lies I could tell, when I was growing up light-bright, near-white, high-yellow, red-boned in a black place, were just white lies&#8221;. This poem white lies uses a sarcastic tone when speaking on lies basically telling the readers that they lied a lot growing up and they clearly told different lies ever time and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-3-discussion","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-winter-2022-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}