{"id":38628,"date":"2017-08-05T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38628"},"modified":"2017-08-06T01:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:15:50","slug":"hour-twelve-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-twelve-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mother Tongue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never forgot this language\u2014<\/p>\n<p>the way my tongue should roll<\/p>\n<p>when I pronounce the words<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The accent<\/p>\n<p>and expressions<\/p>\n<p>grab the phrases strongly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sentences<\/p>\n<p>slip out of my mouth<\/p>\n<p>with an ease<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pen doesn\u2019t fumble<\/p>\n<p>when I try to form curves<\/p>\n<p>of the alphabets<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The words are<\/p>\n<p>the warm blanket<\/p>\n<p>in the frost<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The prose is<\/p>\n<p>the lost home<\/p>\n<p>which I found too late<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The songs<\/p>\n<p>have a tune which<\/p>\n<p>resonates with my breath<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I might have left my<\/p>\n<p>mother tongue<\/p>\n<p>but its existence never ceased<\/p>\n<p>within me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Tongue &nbsp; I never forgot this language\u2014 the way my tongue should roll when I pronounce the words &nbsp; The accent and expressions grab the phrases strongly &nbsp; The sentences slip out of my mouth with an ease &nbsp; The pen doesn\u2019t fumble when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114],"tags":[2228,2506,680,18,23,31,1372,15,391,10,2116,390,1084],"class_list":["post-38628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-hour12","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-haiku","tag-life","tag-love","tag-native","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628","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\/1044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40499,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions\/40499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}