{"id":113055,"date":"2018-06-20T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=113055"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:14:14","slug":"i-come-from-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/06\/i-come-from-there\/","title":{"rendered":"I Come From There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come from there and I have memories<br \/>\nBorn as mortals are, I have a mother<br \/>\nAnd a house with many windows,<br \/>\nI have brothers, friends,<br \/>\nAnd a prison cell with a cold window.<br \/>\nMine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,<br \/>\nI have my own view,<br \/>\nAnd an extra blade of grass.<br \/>\nMine is the moon at the far edge of the words,<br \/>\nAnd the bounty of birds,<br \/>\nAnd the immortal olive tree.<br \/>\nI walked this land before the swords<br \/>\nTurned its living body into a laden table.<br \/>\nI come from there. I render the sky unto her mother<br \/>\nWhen the sky weeps for her mother.<br \/>\nAnd I weep to make myself known<br \/>\nTo a returning cloud.<br \/>\nI learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood<br \/>\nSo that I could break the rule.<br \/>\nI learnt all the words and broke them up<br \/>\nTo make a single word: Homeland&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mahmoud-Darwish.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-113056 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mahmoud-Darwish-e1529424699454.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><em>Mahmoud Darwish<\/em><em> was born on 13 Mar 1941 in the village of al-Birwa in the Western Galilee, Palestine. In 1948 his family fled to Lebanon after Israeli forces assaulted and occupied his village.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come from there and I have memories<br \/>\nBorn as mortals are, I have a mother<br \/>\nAnd a house with many windows,<br \/>\nI have brothers, friends, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":113056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}