{"id":42916,"date":"2025-07-28T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42916"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:43:32","slug":"the-new-colossus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/the-new-colossus\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW COLOSSUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/emma-lazarus\">Emma Lazarus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1849 \u20131887<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,<br>With conquering limbs astride from land to land;<br>Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<br>A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<br>Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br>Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br>Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br>The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<br>\u201cKeep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!\u201d cries she<br>With silent lips. \u201cGive me your tired, your poor,<br>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This poem is in the public domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/biographies\/706_elazarus.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Lazarus\" title=\"Photo credit: Engraving by T. Johnson, 1872. Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo credit: Engraving by T. Johnson, 1872. Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A descendant of Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the United States from Portugal around the time of the American Revolution, Emma Lazarus was a Jewish American poet and translator. Her sonnet, \u201cThe New Colossus,\u201d is inscribed on a plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty monument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/emma-lazarus\">About Emma Lazarus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Poets.org)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Lazarus 1849 \u20131887 Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/the-new-colossus\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42917,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42916\/revisions\/42917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}