{"id":631403,"date":"2018-10-05T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=631403"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:06:00","slug":"tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/10\/tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Today we share a poem written by\u00a0Jodie Marino Nachison of Las Cruces in the context of all that&#8217;s happening in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_631406\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-631406\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nachison-Jodie-Marino.jpg\" alt=\"Jodie Marino Nachison\" width=\"336\" height=\"389\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Courtesy photo<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Marino Nachison<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tears<br \/>\nfor women who struggle<br \/>\nto pull on punishing emotional girdles<br \/>\nto contain the pain of the their past<br \/>\nonly to have it spill over at night<\/p>\n<p>for women who try to forget but simply can\u2019t<br \/>\nwho suffer silently through inappropriate jokes<br \/>\nthat abruptly jolt their sensibilities<\/p>\n<p>for women who are ensnared in uncaring relationships<br \/>\nwhere responses to their pain fall short<\/p>\n<p>for women who have been shot down<br \/>\ntold to get over it<br \/>\ntold they deserved it<\/p>\n<p>for little girls<br \/>\nwhose own mothers say<br \/>\nthey don\u2019t believe them<br \/>\nor we don\u2019t talk about that<\/p>\n<p>for little girls and women<br \/>\nforced to have sex with others<br \/>\nfor profit or perfidy<\/p>\n<p>for women afraid to be judged<br \/>\nclueless about how break the chains<\/p>\n<p>for women who live with the confusion<br \/>\nfrom raising the sons<br \/>\nwho cause such tears<\/p>\n<p>There must be more than tears<\/p>\n<p><em>Jodie Marino Nachison of Las Cruces calls herself \u201cThe Reckless Poet\u201d because of her poor impulse control and her willingness\u00a0to tackle any subject with brutal\u00a0honesty and on-the-edge humor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we share a poem written in the context of all that&#8217;s happening in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,16],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-631403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-guest-columns","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}