{"id":23131,"date":"2013-11-12T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23131"},"modified":"2013-10-30T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T06:53:14","slug":"tuesday-poem-roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry-traditional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/tuesday-poem-roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry-traditional\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry&#8221; &#8212; Traditional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roll of thunder<br \/>\nHear my cry<br \/>\nOver the water<br \/>\nBye and bye<br \/>\nOle man comin&#8217;<br \/>\nDown the line<br \/>\nWhip in hand to<br \/>\nBeat me down<br \/>\nBut I ain&#8217;t<br \/>\nGonna let him<br \/>\nTurn me around.<\/p>\n<p>~ Traditional<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/tuesday-poem-roll-of-thunder-hear-my-cry-traditional\/rollofthunder\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23132\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-23132\" title=\"RollOfThunder\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/RollOfThunder-90x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/RollOfThunder-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/RollOfThunder-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/RollOfThunder.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>This &#8220;poem&#8221; comprises the lyrics from a traditional, Black American spiritual of the American South, probably most well known now for its association with the Newbery Medal winning novel, <strong><em>Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry<\/em><\/strong> by Mildred D. Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>To read the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on the <strong>Quill<\/strong> <strong>icon <\/strong>in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll of thunder Hear my cry Over the water Bye and bye Ole man comin&#8217; Down the line Whip in hand to Beat me down But I ain&#8217;t Gonna let him Turn me around. ~ Traditional &#8212; This &#8220;poem&#8221; comprises the lyrics from a traditional, Black American spiritual of the American South, probably most well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23138,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23131\/revisions\/23138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}