{"id":398,"date":"2009-03-16T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-03-19T06:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:58:45","slug":"red-brocade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/red-brocade\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Brocade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Red Brocade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Arabs used to say,<br \/>\n When a stranger appears at your door,<br \/>\n feed him for three days<br \/>\n before asking who he is,<br \/>\n where he&#8217;s come from,<br \/>\n where he&#8217;s headed.<br \/>\n That way, he&#8217;ll have strength<br \/>\n enough to answer.<br \/>\n Or, by then you&#8217;ll be<br \/>\n such good friends<br \/>\n you don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go back to that.<br \/>\n Rice?\u00a0 Pine nuts?<br \/>\n Here, take the red brocade pillow.<br \/>\n My child will serve water<br \/>\n to your horse.<\/p>\n<p>No, I was not busy when you came!<br \/>\n I was not preparing to be busy.<br \/>\n That&#8217;s the armor everyone put on<br \/>\n to pretend they had a purpose<br \/>\n in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to be claimed.<br \/>\n Your plate is waiting.<br \/>\n We will snip fresh mint<br \/>\n into your tea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212; Naomi Shihab Nye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3104\/3367394079_e7effc7d1c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3104\/3367394079_e7effc7d1c.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3104\/3367394079_e7effc7d1c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Brocade The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he&#8217;s come from, where he&#8217;s headed. That way, he&#8217;ll have strength enough to answer. Or, by then you&#8217;ll be such good friends you don&#8217;t care. Let&#8217;s go back to that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ongoing-nia-classes","category-poem-of-the-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}