{"id":102489,"date":"2021-06-27T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102489"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:44:05","slug":"your-mother-didnt-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/your-mother-didnt-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Mother didn&#8217;t tell you"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The beautiful side of the herders and their wives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She remembers to tell you they ruined a country<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">because her heart still bleed for her lover<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">and grief won&#8217;t depart from her until she invokes<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">what was written by the prophets in a poem like this.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Did I tell you that I am a lover of cheese<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">and Fulani are the maker of sumptuous ones?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I am sorry your father didn&#8217;t return from the farm.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Truth has an unpleasant taste but I must feed you this:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">not all herders kill and not all killers are herders.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">To the farm, let us go! What was written<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">about wolves<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">and sheep dwelling together could fulfill in us, too.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And when this system crashes like a pillar of salt,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">behold your father coming out of sheol.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beautiful side of the herders and their wives. She remembers to tell you they ruined a country because her heart still bleed for her lover and grief won&#8217;t depart from her until she invokes what was written by the prophets in a poem like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102522,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102489\/revisions\/102522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}