{"id":1654,"date":"2024-06-12T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:00:10","slug":"mothers-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Kay Augustine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I rode the bus twice<br>on Saturday, once<br>on Sunday, traveling through<br>the Inner City.<br><br>Two older Black men\u2014a<br>different one each day\u2014seeing, perhaps,<br>my grey hair and wrinkles, smiled and<br>said \u201cHappy Mother\u2019s Day,\u201d and <br><br>as each greeter left the bus, I said,<br>\u201cAnd a good day to you, sir!\u201d<br>The first replied, \u201cYou made my day!\u201d<br>The second said, \u201cBe safe!\u201d<br><br>He gave me food for thought: Some folks<br>think Milwaukee isn\u2019t safe; they wonder why<br>we\u2019d want to live here; they've said that<br>crime is rampant on our streets.<br><br>I\u2019ve lived here going on seventy years<br>and I feel blessed to live in a place<br>where I can meet others not like me<br>but we speak to each other<br>lovingly.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel blessed to live in a place where I can meet others not like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Kay Augustine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}