{"id":9698,"date":"2012-09-12T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9698"},"modified":"2012-09-12T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:11:13","slug":"rebecca-woman-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9698","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca, Woman of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/Rebecca.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"567\" \/>Here, in a thick wood of scrub pine, blackberry, ivy, goldenrod, and crumbling stone walls, at the very edge of America, where &#8220;you hear the grating roar \/ Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,&#8221; is a plaque on which hikers pile stones and sea glass, as on the tomb of a Jewish sage or martyr. The plaque reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>REBECCA WOMAN OF AFRICA<\/p>\n<p>Born in Africa and enslaved in Chilmark, she married Elisha Amos, a Wampanoag man. She was the mother of Nancy Michael. Rebecca died a free woman in this place in 1801.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We come here very often, and I like to think of Rebecca and Amos clinging together on windy nights, whispering their true names, saying, &#8220;Ah, love, let us be true \/ To one another!,&#8221; safe at the tip of the continent, on a spot that nobody else wanted but the gulls and the cormorants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, in a thick wood of scrub pine, blackberry, ivy, goldenrod, and crumbling stone walls, at the very edge of America, where &#8220;you hear the grating roar \/ Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,&#8221; is a plaque on which hikers pile stones and sea glass, as on the tomb of a Jewish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9698"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9718,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}