{"id":1296,"date":"2011-03-09T22:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T03:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2011-03-09T22:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T03:59:40","slug":"dream-deferred-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Dream Deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Langston Hughes<\/p>\n<p>What happens to a dream deferred?<\/p>\n<p>Does it dry up<br \/>\nLike a raisin in the sun?<\/p>\n<p>Or fester like a sore&#8211;<br \/>\nAnd then run?<\/p>\n<p>Does it stink like rotten meat?<br \/>\nOr crust and sugar over&#8211;<br \/>\nlike a syrupy sweet?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it just sags<br \/>\nlike a heavy load.<\/p>\n<p>Or does it explode?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore&#8211; And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over&#8211; like a syrupy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1296\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[141,55,32,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}