{"id":524,"date":"2023-03-21T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=524"},"modified":"2023-03-21T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:04:44","slug":"sonnet-the-family-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet: The Family Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The art of smiling, how forged might it be<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this wonderful family picture;<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Father\u2019s face full of scars, laughing with glee,<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mother\u2019s hands wounded, strange misadventure!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">My baby sister holding the hurt hand,<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">And I, standing beside my dad, arms crossed,<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Chuckling at jokes I could not understand;<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Joyful, twinkles in my eyes, eyebrows arched,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The last gathering, as a family.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Years later, our household\u2019s climate got odd,<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cries and kicks ricocheted heavily;<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">I spotted a shooting star, called on God,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But God was sleeping, my parents divorced;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art of smiling, how forged might it be In this wonderful family picture; Father\u2019s face full of scars, laughing with glee, Mother\u2019s hands wounded, strange misadventure!\u00a0 My baby sister holding the hurt hand, And I, standing beside my dad, arms crossed, Chuckling at jokes I could not understand; Joyful, twinkles in my eyes, eyebrows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sonnet: The Family Picture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[39],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":39,"user_id":12,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhamedtaik","display_name":"M'hamed Taik","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28445226b8a1211c44f492f3339658d94c787b21c55d0212cb481c851c7054f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Taik","first_name":"M'hamed","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}