{"id":14068,"date":"2021-08-15T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/black-rapunzel\/"},"modified":"2021-08-15T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:21:55","slug":"black-rapunzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/black-rapunzel\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Rapunzel"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"593\" height=\"441\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3d93879851e748f13aa7698d953970ea.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Slave Trade, by George Morland\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3d93879851e748f13aa7698d953970ea.jpg 593w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3d93879851e748f13aa7698d953970ea-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3d93879851e748f13aa7698d953970ea-441x328.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3d93879851e748f13aa7698d953970ea-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3d93879851e748f13aa7698d953970ea-10x7.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Black Rapunzel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Jenny Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Family gathers in these plaits,<br \/>each parting like a grave <br \/>for people forced to work <br \/>the cane, colour of my scalp,<br \/>sun beating on their crowns.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll twist the strands into a rope, <br \/>de-colonising hair, a diaspora <br \/>wending back to help <br \/>the ones in chains <br \/>escape the transatlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Black Rapunzel, I\u2019ll uncoil my locks <br \/>in prison yards, urge those on SUS<br \/>or sectioned, deep ancestor <br \/>voices trapped in too-loose plaits,<br \/>to shimmy over walls,<\/p>\n<p>hide beneath my headwrap, <br \/>floral length of Africa before the trade.<br \/>I\u2019ll carry them to safety, <br \/>woven in my braids. We\u2019ll grieve <br \/>till loss flies out, unbound at last.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wawM-GsGaco\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Rapunzel by Jenny Mitchell Family gathers in these plaits,each parting like a grave for people forced to work the cane, colour of my scalp,sun beating on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":14067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}