{"id":149,"date":"2013-01-03T11:29:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T09:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glendawarburton.wordpress.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2022-10-13T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T14:26:36","slug":"woman-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Woman of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day while walking on the beach I noticed a woman fishing from the rocks.  Nothing remarkable you might think, until you understand that here this is a predominantly male preserve.  She inspired the following:<\/p>\n<p>She stands unmoving in the spray<br \/>\nThis woman of Africa<br \/>\nShe is immutable, she is steadfast<br \/>\nThe waves are relentless<br \/>\nPounding impotently against the lava of old<br \/>\nThe woman is timeless as she is bold<br \/>\nShe is the rock on which she stands<\/p>\n<p>As they reflect the amber depths<br \/>\nOf unplumbed, undefined emotion<br \/>\nHer journey is an unbroken step<br \/>\nWalked with stoic endurance<br \/>\nA life unremarked and unnoticed<br \/>\nIt will end as it began<br \/>\nOn a palette of reeds<br \/>\nIn an unfloored hut<br \/>\nDust to dust, ashes to ashes<br \/>\nLiving to newly departed<\/p>\n<p>Still the waves keep coming<br \/>\nThe rocks stand firm<br \/>\nHer timelessness slowly fades<br \/>\nUntil another stands in her place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day while walking on the beach I noticed a woman fishing from the rocks. Nothing remarkable you might think, until you understand that here this<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendawarburton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}