{"id":52758,"date":"2019-06-22T19:24:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52758"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:30:34","slug":"my-heart-is-in-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/my-heart-is-in-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heart is in the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the sea<\/p>\n<p>through frozen waves<\/p>\n<p>and depths so deep that they have never seen the sun<\/p>\n<p>Lies a land<\/p>\n<p>sister to my own<\/p>\n<p>separated billions of year ago<\/p>\n<p>A land that holds my heart<\/p>\n<p>From the moment I first stepped onto this land<\/p>\n<p>with the rain lightly touching my face and the wind in my hair<\/p>\n<p>the lush greenness and the freshness of the air<\/p>\n<p>called me home<\/p>\n<p>And I knew, this is where I belonged<\/p>\n<p>But my passport says something different<\/p>\n<p>Country borders are still a thing<\/p>\n<p>and I cannot go home<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much I long for it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-ta tw-text-medium\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span lang=\"gd\">Alba, tha gaol agam ort (Scotland, I love you)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">Bidh gaol agam ort gu br\u00e0th (I will always love you)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">Tha m &#8216;anam a \u2019caoineadh dhut (My soul weeps for you)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">Tha mi a \u2019cluinntinn gu br\u00e0th (My heart is yours forever)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">A dh&#8217;aithghearr thig mi dhachaigh (Soon I will come home)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52870\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11094775_10152690310696423_2117634633423716352_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11094775_10152690310696423_2117634633423716352_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11094775_10152690310696423_2117634633423716352_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11094775_10152690310696423_2117634633423716352_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11094775_10152690310696423_2117634633423716352_o-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11094775_10152690310696423_2117634633423716352_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the sea through frozen waves and depths so deep that they have never seen the sun Lies a land sister to my own separated billions of year ago A land that holds my heart From the moment I first stepped onto this land with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52758","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\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52872,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52758\/revisions\/52872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}