{"id":29618,"date":"2021-07-30T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29618"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T09:58:23","slug":"from-a-mural-a-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29618","title":{"rendered":"From a Mural a Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Did you watch it?<br>Did you spray beer<br>all over your mates?<br>Shout at the telly.<br>Leap out of your seat.<br>Throw open your arms<br>in the champion position?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you feel the ecstasy<br>of freedom<br>the excitement<br>of heightened competition?<br>Did you throw<br>off restrictions with<br>reckless abandon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead after only minutes.<br>Did you worry<br>the goal came too early?<br>Defending it too long.<br>Full time turned into extra time.<br>Finally without a winner<br>the long walk for penalties.<br>Expectation. Apprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty million watched.<br>Hesitating. Burdened by history.<br><em>*I wish it had gone differently.<br>Over and over in my head<br>it&#8217;s playing.<br>All I can say is sorry.<br>I felt I let the people down.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the darkness<br>the bay of the bloodhounds.<br>Their howls silenced by a<br>single post-it expressing solidarity.<br>At the wall more came.<br><em>Reggie, six.<br>Thank you for our dinners.<\/em><br>Messages of pride and of inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*A 23-year-old black man<br>from Withington and Wythenshawe,<br>South Manchester.<br>If I have nothing else I have that.<br>I will never apologise for who I am.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Joy Johnson, Unite political department<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Inspired by Marcus Rashford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s statement after the Euro Cup and the crowds that gathered at the mural posting hand written messages expressing pride and thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you watch it?Did you spray beerall over your mates?Shout at the telly.Leap out of your seat.Throw open your armsin the champion position? Did you feel the ecstasyof freedomthe excitementof heightened competition?Did you throwoff restrictions withreckless abandon? Ahead after only minutes.Did you worrythe goal came too early?Defending it too long.Full time turned into extra time.Finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[630,1277,1459,576],"wps_subtitle":"Unite's Joy Johnson takes inspiration from Marcus Rashford's post-Euro final statement in her latest poem","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29624,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29618\/revisions\/29624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}