{"id":1639,"date":"2024-11-20T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2025-01-31T11:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:29:46","slug":"poem-my-morning-cup-of-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/poem-my-morning-cup-of-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: My morning cup of coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In the quiet early hours of the day<br \/>\nI pour myself a cup of coffee<br \/>\nAnd through my bleary swollen eyes<br \/>\nI catch up to what has unfurled<br \/>\nIn the world as I have slept<br \/>\nI see images of crumbling buildings in war torn zones<br \/>\nAnd children with missing limbs<br \/>\nI see people buried under rubble<br \/>\nAnd the displaced living in tents<br \/>\nI see mothers clutching tiny shrouds<br \/>\nAnd orphans calling their parents\u2019 name<br \/>\nI see news of mass suicide<br \/>\nTo save themselves from rape<br \/>\nA year ago, I would have cried<br \/>\nAs I saw these injustices<br \/>\nBut now I drink my cup of coffee<br \/>\nAnd carry on with my day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Note from the author: This original poem describes how the author often feels desensitized by current global events due to constant exposure to distressing news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innocentlivesfoundation.org\/alone-in-the-crowd\/\">Innocent Lives Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the quiet early hours of the day I pour myself a cup of coffee And through my bleary swollen eyes I catch up to what has unfurled In the world as I have slept I see images of crumbling buildings in war torn zones And children with missing limbs I see people buried under rubble And the displaced living in tents I see mothers clutching tiny shrouds And orphans calling their parents\u2019 name I see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,157],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-militarism","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}