{"id":133820,"date":"2023-09-02T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133820"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:53:24","slug":"the-man-from-kabul-said-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-man-from-kabul-said-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man from Kabul said to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poem No.7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man from Kabul spoke to me<\/p>\n<p>When,he drove my taxi home<\/p>\n<p>He said he believed the Quran<\/p>\n<p>And I should cover my head.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I live in \u00a0a free country and can do what I wish<\/p>\n<p>The man from Kabul spoke to me<\/p>\n<p>It is haram he said, \u00a0you see<\/p>\n<p>Our Prophet said so in the Holy Book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t defy his orders.<\/p>\n<p>Women must stay indoors<\/p>\n<p>The man from Kabul spoke to me<\/p>\n<p>No jobs for you outdoors to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t send your daughter to school<\/p>\n<p>But teach her at home as Allah<\/p>\n<p>Then be happy with you<\/p>\n<p>The man from Kabul spoke to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem No.7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The man from Kabul spoke to me When,he drove my taxi home He said he believed the Quran And I should cover my head. &nbsp; I live in \u00a0a free country and can do what I wish The man from Kabul spoke to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133820","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\/1703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133840,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133820\/revisions\/133840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}