{"id":89,"date":"2022-02-11T18:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:08:07","slug":"floyd-cheung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/floyd-cheung\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Cheung"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>On Running Through an Unfamiliar Neighborhood the Day After Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s Killers Are Charged with a Hate Crime<\/h3>\n<p><nbsp;><br \/>\nthe air is heavy but I have time this morning so I run<br \/>\ndown Massachusetts Route 66 until I take a left on an unfamiliar street<\/p>\n<p>half a block in a car passes me and then stops<br \/>\nwhy I don\u2019t know. my mind flashes to the video<\/p>\n<p>of Ahmaud Arbery running through his neighborhood in Georgia<br \/>\nuntil three white men in two trucks trap and shoot him<\/p>\n<p>why did this gray sedan pause in the middle of the street?<br \/>\nmaybe the driver stopped for an animal?<\/p>\n<p>the car drives on and I continue running lost in my thoughts<br \/>\nuntil I see a kid on a bicycle with training wheels<\/p>\n<p>when he sees me, he gets off and runs into his house<br \/>\nmaybe he had to pee? he couldn\u2019t be alarmed by me, could he?<\/p>\n<p>eventually, I turn the corner and come across a \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d sign<br \/>\nand two houses later a \u201cPro-Black <em>and<\/em> Pro-Police\u201d sign<\/p>\n<p>these make political sense in Western Mass but then I remember<br \/>\nAsian Americans aren\u2019t part of the narrative <\/p>\n<p>even if one is on your street<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a class=\"previous-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/visual-art\/marianne-connolly\/\">Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"next-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/patty-arbour-2\/\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Running Through an Unfamiliar Neighborhood the Day After Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s Killers Are Charged with a Hate Crime the air is heavy but I have time this morning so I run down Massachusetts Route 66 until I take a left on an unfamiliar street half a block in a car passes me and then stops &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/floyd-cheung\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Floyd Cheung<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/1277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}