{"id":1583,"date":"2015-04-04T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2015-04-07T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:01:18","slug":"sun-does-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/sun-does-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Does Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Anthony Ray Hinton (58) speaking to the press on being asked how it felt to be free after being released from Death Row, which he was on for 30 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1589\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Ray-Hinton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Ray-Hinton.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Ray Hinton - freed after 30 years on Death Row\" width=\"628\" height=\"187\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Ray-Hinton.jpg 628w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anthony-Ray-Hinton-300x89.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Ray Hinton &#8211; freed after 30 years on Death Row<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our broken hearts, our shattered dreams<br \/>\nBuilt on ideals, ambition, not fact<br \/>\nThat cost us slee, worries and woes<br \/>\nOf how the other will react<br \/>\nOur jobs, the rat race and lifes chase<br \/>\nThat steals from our life its joy<br \/>\nAre but childrens tears over spilt beers<br \/>\nLong may it be us such things annoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>30 years facing death where nothing has changed<br \/>\nBar laws on paper, where to be black officially is fine<br \/>\nLong may it be that neither you or me<br \/>\nEver have to utter the words &#8220;Sun do shine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Reference<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2015\/4\/6\/they_couldn_t_take_my_soul\">http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2015\/4\/6\/they_couldn_t_take_my_soul<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Ray Hinton (58) speaking to the press on being asked how it felt to be free after being released from Death Row, which he was on for 30 years. Our broken hearts, our shattered dreams Built on ideals, ambition, not fact That cost us slee, worries and woes Of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1755,1754,210,1756],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama","tag-birmingham","tag-civil-rights-2","tag-death-penalty","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-px","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1271,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/christ-was-crucified-in-dublin\/","url_meta":{"origin":1583,"position":0},"title":"Christ Was Crucified In Dublin","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd December 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As if once more nailed to a cross In Dublin, Christ was crucified Where on a street beside the D\u00e1il The least of his slept and died. 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