{"id":24231,"date":"2013-08-22T22:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T02:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=24231"},"modified":"2013-08-26T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T19:19:07","slug":"harlem-poems-harlems-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=24231","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Poems: &#8220;Harlem&#8217;s Own&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem on Harlem by young harlemite Kristin Richardson Jordan written for HCL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harlem&#8217;s Own<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Harlem_map2.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured \" title=\"Map of Harlem\" alt=\"Map of Harlem\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cb\/Harlem_map2.png\/300px-Harlem_map2.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Harlem (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by Kristin Richardson Jordan<\/p>\n<p>Harlem is home<br \/>\nof young bloods<br \/>\nold souls, small biz<br \/>\nand busy restaurants<br \/>\nloud radios play background to old mens&#8217; street chess<br \/>\nas African women ask to braid your hair<br \/>\nHarlem is home<br \/>\nto pant&#8217;s sagging, hips shaking,<br \/>\ndu-rag wearing &#8220;vagabonds&#8221;<br \/>\nand white-talking,<br \/>\nsuitwearing<br \/>\njewelry a-twirlin&#8217; &#8220;uppity negros&#8221;<br \/>\nand hipsters<br \/>\nand gentrifiers<br \/>\nand all things in between<br \/>\nBut mostly Harlem&#8217;s the womb of words<br \/>\nspoken music dancing jazz paint cooking sewing collage poem<br \/>\nthe art is behind every lamp post<br \/>\nin the mailboxes<br \/>\nunder hats and hoods<br \/>\ncrawling the cracks of the street<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s the art<br \/>\nand no. matter. what.<br \/>\none of Harlem&#8217;s own will grab you<br \/>\nwith soul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem on Harlem by young harlemite Kristin Richardson Jordan written for HCL. Harlem&#8217;s Own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124718155],"tags":[77809719,124718158,124715891,47860682,124715880,93470272,173973,15427,124715879,124715498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24312,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231\/revisions\/24312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}