{"id":95,"date":"2023-02-24T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=95"},"modified":"2023-02-24T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:41:44","slug":"oh-to-be-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Oh to Be a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be a woman\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To fight for your mere existence\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t\u202fdress like that! Sit like a lady!\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How dare you show resistance?!\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Be polite, do not act\u202fshady\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Smile a bit, you look too\u202ftense\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Be\u202fbreathtaking\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Catch a husband\u202fsoon\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You’d be so talented at\u202fbaking\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why study hard?\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You won’t be traveling to the\u202fmoon\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you tired of this training?\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You only graduate with a\u202fring\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not daydream of\u202findependence\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Or dare to grow a\u202fwing\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Daydream only of being a\u202fhousewife\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the bearing of a child you shall\u202fbring\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Life has a\u202fnorm\u202fand this is your life\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a blessing!\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How dare you say you feel a sting?\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your life has been already\u202fdetermined\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From the moment the nurse announced\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a girl!”\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You say you’d treat her like a\u202fpearl\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet it isn’t what you’re\u202fdoing\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh\u202fto be a woman\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be a woman\u202f\u00a0 To fight for your mere existence\u202f\u00a0 Don’t\u202fdress like that! Sit like a lady!\u202f\u00a0 How dare you show resistance?!\u202f\u00a0 Be polite, do not act\u202fshady\u202f\u00a0 Smile a bit, you look too\u202ftense\u202f\u00a0 Be\u202fbreathtaking\u202f\u00a0 Catch a husband\u202fsoon\u202f\u00a0 You’d be so talented at\u202fbaking\u202f\u00a0 Why study hard?\u202f\u00a0 You won’t be traveling to the\u202fmoon\u202f\u00a0 Are you tired of … Continue reading “Oh to Be a Woman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[12],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":12,"user_id":16,"is_guest":0,"slug":"bilalelbouardi","display_name":"Bilal Elbouardi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/beb93f2e9a6a113982429396f767bfe69d38d5b7e825dcabbd3e9ec3bb736a2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Elbouardi","first_name":"Bilal","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}