{"id":90337,"date":"2021-06-26T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90337"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:42:57","slug":"90337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/90337\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of a Yellow Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-9sb64w\">\n<p>&#8220;Odenigbo!&#8221; She cried<\/p>\n<p>Screaming with a high pitched voice<\/p>\n<p>Running stumping barefoot<\/p>\n<p>Slamming her feet on the dark earth<\/p>\n<p>Blood prints gave away her footprints<\/p>\n<p>She screamed and screamed for help<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will find me&#8221; she said<\/p>\n<p>The skies changed<\/p>\n<p>All grey and musky<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere is foggy all the way<\/p>\n<p>The trees laughed to the right and left<\/p>\n<p>Mockingly nodding<\/p>\n<p>Scratching at her tiny hands and legs<\/p>\n<p>Leaving tiny scars stained with blood<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Help! help!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Odenigbo! Where are you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t let the spirit take me&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clouded with a tiny bit of tears<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes blinked<\/p>\n<p>As it falls little by little<\/p>\n<p>Gently sliding down her cheeks<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;She had started to cry softly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Odenigbo took her in his arms.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Half of a Yellow Sun,<\/em>\u00a0Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Odenigbo!&#8221; She cried Screaming with a high pitched voice Running stumping barefoot Slamming her feet on the dark earth Blood prints gave away her footprints She screamed and screamed for help &#8220;He will find me&#8221; she said The skies changed All grey and musky Everywhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90337","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\/1361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90684,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90337\/revisions\/90684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}