{"id":1061,"date":"2021-01-18T18:47:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:31:54","slug":"reading-from-surge-jay-bernard-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2021\/01\/18\/reading-from-surge-jay-bernard-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading from &#8220;Surge&#8221;  &#8211; Jay Bernard (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ANbixVTnU4\">reading <\/a>is powerful. Jay Bernard reads their poetry and especially the poem &#8220;Hiss&#8221;, which commemorates the death of 13 young black Londoners in the New Cross fire on this day in 1981. They also read &#8220;+&#8221; and &#8220;-&#8220;, a son dying, dead, with the police officers&#8217; racism oozing in the poem. They end with &#8220;Songbook&#8221;, a reggae jam, really cool to listen to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;I want to crawl between mum and you &#8211; in your bed, in your sheets, dad &#8211; that&#8217;s the only kind of burying I want.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reading is powerful. Jay Bernard reads their poetry and especially the poem &#8220;Hiss&#8221;, which commemorates the death of 13 young black Londoners in the New Cross fire on this day in 1981. They also read &#8220;+&#8221; and &#8220;-&#8220;, a son dying, dead, with the police officers&#8217; racism oozing in the poem. They end with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[56,44,43],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardians-feed-your-soul","category-poems","tag-death","tag-hopelessness","tag-racism"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/chris-karidis-3GWLv30smng-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}