{"id":130786,"date":"2019-04-15T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=130786"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:36:33","slug":"circumference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/circumference\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You built walls<br \/>\nThe domestic ones<br \/>\nAnd found everything within<br \/>\nYour world, your life<br \/>\nYour purpose within<br \/>\nThe family was precious<br \/>\nYours that is<br \/>\nWhat lay beyond<br \/>\nDid not matter<br \/>\nThe empty bowls<br \/>\nThe festering wounds<br \/>\nThe blown limbs<br \/>\nThe body bags<br \/>\nWas not seen<br \/>\nThe ghettos<br \/>\nThe tear stains unnoticed<br \/>\nThe million faces<br \/>\nThe million bruises<br \/>\nWere only sights<br \/>\nTo be seen<br \/>\nThrough window panes<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/author\/preeti-tej-singh\/\" >Preeti Tej Singh<\/a> has written two books of poetry. The first is called<\/em> \u2018I\u2019. <em>The second, <\/em>Simantini <em>(Boundless).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2019\/04\/03\/circumference\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 countercurrents.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You built walls<br \/>\nThe domestic ones<br \/>\nAnd found everything within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-130786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130786","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=130786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}