{"id":4561,"date":"2017-06-08T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T06:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/161575013788"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T06:58:16","slug":"i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings-by-maya-angelouthe-caged-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2017\/06\/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings-by-maya-angelouthe-caged-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"I know why the caged bird sings by Maya AngelouThe caged bird&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/9b2a5fc1d287aa306a5d2e3f7cb449a8\/tumblr_or7vd4sc3d1qd3j1wo1_500.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><i><b>I know why the caged bird sings<\/b><\/i> <b>by Maya Angelou<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The caged bird sings with a fearful trill;<\/p>\n<p>Of things unknown but are longed for still,<\/p>\n<p>And her voice is heard on a far-off hill<\/p>\n<p>For the caged bird sings of freedom.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I have loved this poem for a long time. \u00a0As a fellow survivor of child abuse, I can connect with what Maya said in these words. \u00a0I have many scars on my body as a result of the first 22 violent years of my life, and whenever I saw them I would remember the incident that caused it. \u00a0I see tattoos as positive scars, and with the bird tattoo I\u2019m especially happy as it\u2019s the first colour tattoo I have. \u00a0Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time as an activist &#8211; that I\u2019m shouting into the void. \u00a0But I shout for freedom &#8211; for disabled, survivors of abuse, the ageing, people of colour, and LGBT+ people to be treated better than they currently are. \u00a0Freedom shouldn\u2019t feel like an impossible dream to me. \u00a0I hope this tattoo will remind me to keep going; keep on singing.<\/p>\n<p>The tattoo was done by Tracy at\u00a0Pride Tattoos<b>,<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pridetattoos.webeden.co.uk\/\" >http:\/\/pridetattoos.webeden.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>P.S &#8211; the snowflake above the bird was my first ever tattoo done in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/9b2a5fc1d287aa306a5d2e3f7cb449a8\/tumblr_or7vd4sc3d1qd3j1wo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><i><b>I know why the caged bird sings<\/b><\/i> <b>by Maya Angelou<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The caged bird sings with a fearful trill;<\/p>\n<p>Of things unknown but are longed for still,<\/p>\n<p>And her voice is heard on a far-off hill<\/p>\n<p>For the caged bird sings of freedom.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I have loved this poem for a long time. &nbsp;As a fellow survivor of child abuse, I can connect with what Maya said in these words. &nbsp;I have many scars on my body as a result of the first 22 violent years of my life, and whenever I saw them I would remember the incident that caused it. &nbsp;I see tattoos as positive scars, and with the bird tattoo I&rsquo;m especially happy as it&rsquo;s the first colour tattoo I have. &nbsp;Sometimes I feel like I&rsquo;m wasting my time as an activist &#8211; that I&rsquo;m shouting into the void. &nbsp;But I shout for freedom &#8211; for disabled, survivors of abuse, the ageing, people of colour, and LGBT+ people to be treated better than they currently are. &nbsp;Freedom shouldn&rsquo;t feel like an impossible dream to me. &nbsp;I hope this tattoo will remind me to keep going; keep on singing.<\/p>\n<p>The tattoo was done by Tracy at&nbsp;Pride Tattoos<b>,<\/b>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pridetattoos.webeden.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pridetattoos.webeden.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>P.S &#8211; the snowflake above the bird was my first ever tattoo done in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,416,527,517,63,455,544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ageing","category-black-people","category-csa","category-disability","category-lgbt","category-qtipoc","category-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}