{"id":106893,"date":"2022-06-25T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106893"},"modified":"2022-07-18T06:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:59:56","slug":"in-the-belly-of-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/in-the-belly-of-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"In the belly of the river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aham is a stream<\/p>\n<p>Though we see her as river,<\/p>\n<p>A poor person&#8217;s fowl is his cow.<\/p>\n<p>In the village of my birth<\/p>\n<p>Everything has a gender;<\/p>\n<p>The Aham is the female,<\/p>\n<p>And the Imo the male.<\/p>\n<p>These are the two water bodies<\/p>\n<p>In the village of my birth.<\/p>\n<p>Standing by the bank I watch the water<\/p>\n<p>Flowing deliberately.<\/p>\n<p>I felt invited, I knew it even smiled at me.<\/p>\n<p>I took a plunge.<\/p>\n<p>I first felt cold, then warm<\/p>\n<p>And my mind began to play games.<\/p>\n<p>I became fish, breathing and flowing along with the tide.<\/p>\n<p>I met the mermaid and other aquatic dwellers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As I joined the queue to receive their sacrament of baptism, I choked<\/p>\n<p>And bobbed up to unkind reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aham is a stream Though we see her as river, A poor person&#8217;s fowl is his cow. In the village of my birth Everything has a gender; The Aham is the female, And the Imo the male. These are the two water bodies In the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106893","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\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121911,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106893\/revisions\/121911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}