{"id":1153,"date":"2024-06-02T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2024-06-02T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:13:49","slug":"freedom-in-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/freedom-in-me\/","title":{"rendered":"FREEDOM  IN  ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Freedom in me<\/em><\/h1>\n<h3><strong>by MARY SEYMOUR<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1155\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1155\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sefira-Lightstone-dzue9464299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sefira-Lightstone-dzue9464299.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sefira-Lightstone-dzue9464299-768x460.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sefira Lightstone (Artist)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><em><strong>Hiding behind the self-inflected visions of who I am\u202f\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Visual images flood my mind every day of who I&#8217;m supposed to be\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>Look and Feel from the color of my skin to the thoughts in my mind\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0To the music I hear in my head\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Living life and experiencing the layers of conditioning that have been imposed exposed to every living, breathing part of my existence\u202f\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>Today, I freed myself and took out the weave to experience another self-imposed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1159\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1159\" class=\" wp-image-1159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-does-freedom-mean-to-me-02-1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-does-freedom-mean-to-me-02-1.jpg.webp 625w, https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-does-freedom-mean-to-me-02-1.jpg-768x442.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/work-is-freedom-is-opportunity-2d6b24c706bf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Looking in the mirror, trying to see the beauty in me, the me that is always with me\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The me that is the internal part of the collective universe\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>Yes, I am Black with hair exactly in the image of Gabby and Angela Davis\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Today, it&#8217;s called Afrocentric. Yesterday, it was called militant\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>I am a part of yesterday&#8217;s struggle and a part of today&#8217;s challenge\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT \u00a9 Mary Seymour \/<\/p>\n<p>Iforcolor.org &#8211; DRS \/ \u00a9 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom in me by MARY SEYMOUR Hiding behind the self-inflected visions of who I am\u202f\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Visual images flood my mind every day of who I&#8217;m supposed to be\u00a0 Look and Feel from the color of my skin to the thoughts in my mind\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0To the music I hear in my head\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,6,9],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-dale-ricardo-shields","tag-mary-seymour","tag-sefira-lightstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}