{"id":25586,"date":"2022-01-16T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=25586"},"modified":"2022-01-16T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:23:04","slug":"as-a-child-i-spoke-as-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=25586","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\u2026As a child I spoke as a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25587 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026As a child I spoke as a child<\/p>\n<p>Thought and understood as a child<\/p>\n<p>But when I became a woman<\/p>\n<p>I put away childish things<\/p>\n<p>And I began to see though a glass darkly\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joni Mitchell\u2019s adaptation of Corinthians<\/p>\n<p>With apologies to Jasper John\u2019s Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>I think that we all are looking into \u201cdark mirrors\u201d as we enter the third year of the pandemic and growing American polarization.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m lookin\u2019 at you Texas Synagogue terrorist and MAGA NATIONALIST!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25588 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-2-1024x702.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-2-1024x702.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-2-300x206.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-2-768x526.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-2-1536x1052.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/As-a-child-I-spoke-as-a-child-2.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(By Heidi Lindemann and Michael Perry)<\/p>\n<p>(Image 1: Amanda King,\u00a0<em>(Untitled) Prayer Rug<\/em>, commemorating the 16th Street Baptist bombing. Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2021\/10\/cleveland-artist-amanda-kings-show-at-karamu-communicates-quiet-outrage-against-racism-injustice.html\">Cleveland.com<\/a> \/ Rustin McCann)<\/p>\n<p>(Image 2: Jasper Johns, <em>In Memory of My Feelings\u2014Frank O\u2019Hara.\u00a0<\/em>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/audio-guides\/71?language=english&amp;type=general&amp;page=1&amp;stop=9\">Whitney Museum of Art<\/a> \/ Art Institute of Chicago \/ Jamie Stukenberg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026As a child I spoke as a child Thought and understood as a child But when I became a woman I put away childish things And I began to see though a glass darkly\u2026\u201d Joni Mitchell\u2019s adaptation of Corinthians With apologies to Jasper John\u2019s Mirror. I think that we all are looking into \u201cdark mirrors\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6336,6337],"class_list":["post-25586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-heidi-lindemann","tag-michael-perry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25589,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions\/25589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}