{"id":14395,"date":"2022-02-08T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-thankful-poor\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:13:14","slug":"the-thankful-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/the-thankful-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thankful Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17bf9e47d70ff47da72e014250337d9b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17bf9e47d70ff47da72e014250337d9b.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17bf9e47d70ff47da72e014250337d9b-600x471.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17bf9e47d70ff47da72e014250337d9b-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17bf9e47d70ff47da72e014250337d9b-441x346.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17bf9e47d70ff47da72e014250337d9b-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17bf9e47d70ff47da72e014250337d9b-10x8.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gabriel Rosenstock<\/strong> presents a bilingual tanka, in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) in response to an artwork (above) by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American artist to achieve international renown.\u00a0<\/em>The Thankful Poor<em>\u00a0is the ironic title of Tanner&#8217;s painting from 1894.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Thankful Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Gabriel Rosenstock\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>they are everywhere<br \/>their heads bowed, the thankful poor<br \/>it weighs heavily<br \/> their silence . . . their gratitude<br \/> for what &#8211; for being alive?<\/p>\n<p>t\u00e1 siad gach aon \u00e1it<br \/>na bocht\u00e1in, a gceann cromtha<br \/>is trom \u00e9 a dtost<br \/> c\u00e9n f\u00e1th tost, c\u00e9n f\u00e1th bu\u00edochas<br \/> an bu\u00edoch at\u00e1id as bheith beo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Rosenstock presents a bilingual tanka, in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) in response to an artwork (above) by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American artist to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":549,"featured_media":14394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14395","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\/14395","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\/549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}