{"id":703,"date":"2024-09-01T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akpatacww.com.ng\/?p=703"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:32:30","slug":"placed-in-a-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Placed in a Place &#8211; Merlin Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Placed in a place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To\u00a0<br> \u00a0   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">        the rain<br>        that edged on<br>        only as a muffled scream<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">         gobbled by a car and then a truck.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          the rain\u00a0<br>          that came back,<br>          more furious<br>          with the cyclone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          water rushed<br>          everywhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     knee deep in water, I paused with one<br>     leg in the air<br>     open manhole?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">         The water took off with a black shoe<br>         with pinky pink soles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">         I walked ahead like an elderly baby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">        The rain<br>        That spared me.<br>         I fad you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp;Merlin Flower is an independent artist and writer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placed in a place To\u00a0 \u00a0 the rain that edged on only as a muffled scream gobbled by a car and then a truck. To the rain\u00a0 that came back, more furious with the cyclone. water rushed everywhere knee deep in water, I paused with one leg in the air open manhole?\u00a0 The water took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-1","category-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}