{"id":518,"date":"2025-05-13T03:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/?p=518"},"modified":"2025-05-19T04:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T04:03:47","slug":"before-bad-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Before Bad Things"},"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_1213-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-399 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1213-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1213-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1213-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1213-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1213-scaled.jpg 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\">Before Bad Things<\/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\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They put me in a room: It was really small<br>I hated small spaces.<br>They locked the door and they spied on me There was a camera<br>That I use to throw my shoes at it.<br>If you don\u2019t do your work,<br>If you don\u2019t do this,<br>We\u2019re told on by someone,<br>We get time out.<br>All it is a door and top and windows on the top. Three windows on top and that\u2019s all<br>And there is a door.<br>They left me there.<br>I was told to get into class<br>And then that\u2019s when I got shoved in time out And he didn\u2019t come back;<br>He just walked off.<br>I didn\u2019t really actually like primary school and I got expelled.<br>I got expelled from school<br>And then after that we moved<br>And I went to a foster,<br>Well, before I went into foster care I was home schooled from my Mum,<br>And then I went to foster care<br>And then when I came back Mum said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018You might be going to [The] Residential School\u2019.<\/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>Before Bad Things They put me in a room: It was really smallI hated small spaces.They locked the door and they spied on me There was a cameraThat I use to throw my shoes at it.If you don\u2019t do your work,If you don\u2019t do this,We\u2019re told on by someone,We get time out.All it is a [&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":[34,32],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-criminal","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}