{"id":177,"date":"2023-05-10T02:32:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/?page_id=177"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T19:07:34","slug":"cmoses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-5\/cmoses\/","title":{"rendered":"cMoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TextLayer-container\">\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p>by <span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Alejandra Pena<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>when i think of my father, i think of hands calloused &amp; eyes heavy &amp; boots dirty. i think<\/div>\n<div>of him as Moses\u2014parting the sea by walking days without sleep, without water, without shoes to<\/div>\n<div>the promised land; a land so foreign that his tongue will never roll smoothly enough to be<\/div>\n<div>considered native. instead\u2014it rolls too harshly; every flick of his tongue a rebellion, a<\/div>\n<div>lighthouse, a map home.<\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"TextLayer-container\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Alejandra Pena is a lesbian, Mexican-American poet. Her work has appeared in <em>Another Chicago<\/em> <\/span><span class=\"textLayer--absolute\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><em>Magazine, Sleet Magazine, <\/em>and<em> Prism International<\/em>. She loves her pug Kiwi and the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PDFAnnotationLayer-container\" style=\"text-align: center\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/issue-5\/toc-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">table of contents<\/a> ]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alejandra Pena &nbsp; &nbsp; when i think of my father, i think of hands calloused &amp; eyes heavy &amp; boots dirty. i think of him as Moses\u2014parting the sea by walking days without sleep, without water, without shoes to the promised land; a land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/roadrunnerreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}