{"id":515,"date":"2025-05-13T03:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/?p=515"},"modified":"2025-05-19T04:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:02:58","slug":"i-lost-my-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"I Lost My Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center is-style-default\" style=\"grid-template-columns:56% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1341.jpg-3024\u00d74032-pixels-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-471 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1341.jpg-3024\u00d74032-pixels-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1341.jpg-3024\u00d74032-pixels-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1341.jpg-3024\u00d74032-pixels-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1341.jpg-3024\u00d74032-pixels-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1341.jpg-3024\u00d74032-pixels-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>I Lost My Talk<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#636363;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.326), 17px);line-height:1.1\">Rita Joe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I lost my talk<br>The talk you took away.<br>When I was a little girl<br>At Shubenacadie school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You snatched it away:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I speak like you<br>I think like you<br>I create like you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scrambled ballad, about my word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two ways I talk<br>Both ways I say,<br>Your way is more powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So gently I offer my hand and ask,<br>Let me find my talk<br>So I can teach you about me.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-930feb06 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Lost My Talk Rita Joe I lost my talkThe talk you took away.When I was a little girlAt Shubenacadie school. You snatched it away: I speak like youI think like youI create like you The scrambled ballad, about my word. Two ways I talkBoth ways I say,Your way is more powerful. So gently I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[35,32],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-indian","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}