{"id":11567,"date":"2020-06-08T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/?p=11567"},"modified":"2020-06-22T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T22:39:21","slug":"unanswered-prayers-by-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/journalingforjustice\/unanswered-prayers-by-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unanswered Prayers&#8221; by Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/f_x1uNxJGr0<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #808080;\">&#8220;Unanswered Prayers&#8221;, an original poem written and performed by Desire, then a senior from Miramar High School &#8211; From the 2016 Louder Than A Bomb Florida Indy Finals<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>In July of 2015, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/say-her-name-the-life-and-death-of-sandra-bland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandra Bland<\/a><\/strong> was pulled over by a Texas State Trooper for a minor traffic violation. She was dragged from her car, forced to the ground, and arrested. Three days later, Ms. Bland was found unresponsive in her jail cell, with a plastic garbage can around her neck. Many believe police were involved in her death, though it has been officially ruled a suicide. Poet and musician <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iamdesireb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@iamdesireb<\/a><\/strong> was inspired by this case, and from that was birthed \u201cUnanswered Prayers\u201d. #JournalingForJustice<\/p>\n<h4>If you have a video or written work you would like to submit please send via email to bluapple@jasontaylorfoundation.com or DM @bluapplepoetry on Instagram.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/journalingforjustice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span> TO VIEW THE FULL #JOURNALINGFORJUSTICE ANTHOLOGY PAGE<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Unanswered Prayers&#8221;, an original poem written and performed by Desire, then a senior from Miramar High School &#8211; From the 2016 Louder Than A Bomb Florida Indy Finals In July of 2015, Sandra Bland was pulled over by a Texas State Trooper for a minor traffic violation. She was dragged from her car, forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11567"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11612,"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567\/revisions\/11612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasontaylorfoundation.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}