{"id":48306,"date":"2019-06-22T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48306"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:01:49","slug":"lessons-from-egusi-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/lessons-from-egusi-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"LESSONS FROM EGUSI SOUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother is a great cook<br \/>\nYou can tell from the tantalizing aroma that wafts through the kitchen doors<br \/>\nSwinging between sweet and savoury<br \/>\nMy taste buds ache with lingering torture<br \/>\npulling me to the source and the end<br \/>\nEgusi soup made of vegetable, sweat and determination<br \/>\nTeach me to trust in the work of my hands<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t have to tell<br \/>\nGood results will do the shouting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother is a great cook You can tell from the tantalizing aroma that wafts through the kitchen doors Swinging between sweet and savoury My taste buds ache with lingering torture pulling me to the source and the end Egusi soup made of vegetable, sweat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48306","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\/1215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48306\/revisions\/48343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}