{"id":52685,"date":"2019-06-22T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52685"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:15:09","slug":"entry-12-half-marathon-02-00-eu-time-war-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/entry-12-half-marathon-02-00-eu-time-war-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry 12 Half-Marathon 02.00 EU time \u2013 War Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p>How strong these mothers are, their arms<\/p>\n<p>hard as steel as they lift their toddlers<\/p>\n<p>out of the war-clogged streets.\u00a0 Yes, the streets<\/p>\n<p>no longer know what to vomit &#8211; blood, cries,<\/p>\n<p>faces that have lost hope; shoes, clothes,<\/p>\n<p>haphazardly gathered belongings in old bags.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the bags are always old, the hair is always<\/p>\n<p>grey, the dust always refuses to settle; the eyes<\/p>\n<p>dart left and right, afraid to look forward, afraid<\/p>\n<p>of what is behind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The voices are always angry.\u00a0 The voices want<\/p>\n<p>to kill.\u00a0 The feet do not want to die, not yet.\u00a0 It<\/p>\n<p>is movement they seek, forward movement,<\/p>\n<p>knowing there is nothing to return to, no wall,<\/p>\n<p>no roof, no door.\u00a0 What one wants is a floor<\/p>\n<p>to sit on and a window to look out of.\u00a0 Windows<\/p>\n<p>make one an observer; then one is only part of the<\/p>\n<p>audience and has nothing to do with the street.<\/p>\n<p>But the mothers will always be desperate.\u00a0 Always.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. How strong these mothers are, their arms hard as steel as they lift their toddlers out of the war-clogged streets.\u00a0 Yes, the streets no longer know what to vomit &#8211; blood, cries, faces that have lost hope; shoes, clothes, haphazardly gathered belongings in old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52685","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\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53301,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52685\/revisions\/53301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}