{"id":470,"date":"2019-05-19T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=470"},"modified":"2019-05-25T05:29:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T05:29:03","slug":"tribute-to-an-artist-and-a-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/tribute-to-an-artist-and-a-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to An Artist and A Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>tribute to an artist and brother direct\/a<\/em> (for Dale Ricardo Shields)<\/strong> * by Toni King<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133\" title=\"KING Image\" src=\"https:\/\/iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/KING-Image2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>trickster, traveler<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> trumpet for life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> i saw you<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> ticking off the minutes to<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> showtime<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> the writing on your shoes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> the winning number each one held<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> after five minutes of your time<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> daddy dale falling from the tongues<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> of tough guys<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> the secret language of comrades<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> in truth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> i saw you<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> teach\/a, preach\/a, motivate\/a<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> living lean, edgy, keen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> lifting large<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> so their lives could talk back<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> make plain<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> speak a mountain into volcanic ash!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-847\" title=\"Dale show window\" src=\"https:\/\/iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dale-show-window-e1345327810294-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">tribute to an artist<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <span style=\"color: #000080;\"> and brother direct\/a<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iforcolor.org\/?p=457\">toni c. king<\/a> (C) All rights reserved<br \/>\n1\/2\/2012 <strong><em>for Dale<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-132\" title=\"KING Image\" src=\"https:\/\/iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/KING-Image1-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tribute to an artist and brother direct\/a (for Dale Ricardo Shields) * by Toni King trickster, traveler trumpet for life i saw you ticking off the minutes to showtime the writing on your shoes the winning number each one held after five minutes of your time daddy dale falling from the tongues of tough guys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}