{"id":19263,"date":"2026-08-18T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/?p=19263"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:24:28","slug":"reasons-i-pray-by-letonia-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/18\/reasons-i-pray-by-letonia-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reasons I Pray&#8221; by LeTonia Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LeTonia Jones<br>Black Girl at the Intersection<br>Accents Publishing, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blackgirlattheintersection.html\">https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blackgirlattheintersection.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Black-Girl-2--819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Black-Girl-2--819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Black-Girl-2--240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Black-Girl-2--768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Black-Girl-2--624x780.png 624w, https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Black-Girl-2-.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image design by Wendy Jett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeTonia JonesBlack Girl at the IntersectionAccents Publishing, 2023 https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blackgirlattheintersection.html Image design by Wendy Jett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,692,690],"class_list":["post-19263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem","tag-accents-publishing","tag-letonia-jones","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19265,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19263\/revisions\/19265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accents-publishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}