{"id":24,"date":"2008-10-20T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T15:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-10-20T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:45:14","slug":"we-real-cool-gwendolyn-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"We Real Cool &#8211; Gwendolyn Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:werealcool.mp3] (:20)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">read by Gwendolyn Brooks.  audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/\" target=\"blank\">poets.org<\/a>.  Recorded May 03, 1983 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"invis.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"1\" \/>THE POOL PLAYERS.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"invis.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"1\" \/>SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.<\/p>\n<p>We real cool. We<br \/>\nLeft school. We<\/p>\n<p>Lurk late. We<br \/>\nStrike straight. We<\/p>\n<p>Sing sin. We<br \/>\nThin gin. We<\/p>\n<p>Jazz June. We<br \/>\nDie soon.<\/p>\n<p>(1959)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:werealcool.mp3] (:20) read by Gwendolyn Brooks. audio from poets.org. Recorded May 03, 1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-jazz-june"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}