{"id":270,"date":"2019-09-09T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinvolvement.wordpress.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2019-09-09T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:55:42","slug":"not-my-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2019\/09\/09\/not-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT MY BODY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Nyokabi Ng\u2019ang\u2019a<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leshnyokabi@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo courtesy: Pinterest.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In times of war, they lay me down<\/p>\n<p>Taking turns I mourn<\/p>\n<p>Of this body of gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In times of peace, they put me aside<\/p>\n<p>Dictating frocks of long<\/p>\n<p>To cover this body of gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In times of love, they put me aside<\/p>\n<p>Choosing my lover of life<\/p>\n<p>To govern my body of gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In times of work, they weigh me down<\/p>\n<p>Giving tasks of long<\/p>\n<p>To focus this body of gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In times of culture, they lay me down<\/p>\n<p>Mutilating my inner make,<\/p>\n<p>To make me pleasing to thine god.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In times of birth, they cast me down<\/p>\n<p>Giving shrills of fail,<\/p>\n<p>For it\u2019s a girl who\u2019s been born!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nyokabi Ng\u2019ang\u2019a Leshnyokabi@gmail.com \u00a0 Photo courtesy: Pinterest.com \u00a0 In times of war, they lay me down Taking turns I mourn Of this body of gone. &nbsp; In times of peace, they put me aside Dictating frocks of long To cover this body of gone. &nbsp; In times of love, they put me aside Choosing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,62,46,1],"tags":[24,63,64,45],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-fiction","category-poems","category-uncategorized","tag-african","tag-girl","tag-girlchild","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}