{"id":1275,"date":"2024-08-29T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:29:11","slug":"roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/29\/roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem172.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem172.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem172-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem172-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I come from a city<br>with people born on a blacklist.<br>I come from a country<br>which has since ceased to exist.<br>I come from a culture<br>where nothing is what it seems,<br>full of loud delusions and stifling truths,<br>where language conceals.<br><br>I grew on an ice flow that was cracking and breaking in spring.<br>I had to grow my roots wide.<br>So far that they reached different shores.<br>So strong that they gripped, and mauled, and changed the shoreline.<br>So solid that I became a bridge.<br><br>Now, bridges are never safe.<br>Never as safe as the solid land &#8211;<br>or at least they don&#8217;t seem to be.<br>They sway in the wind,<br>they rely on a few points of contact,<br>they have to strive just to stay in place.<br><br>You could transport a bridge to a safer place,<br>sell it like the proverbial Brooklyn Bridge<br>and make some cash on the way,<br>or move it for real \u2013<br>to a safe harbour, out of the wind.<br><br>But even a broken bridge across the gap<br>has more purpose than a bridge on solid land,<br>it remains rooted in both shores,<br>forever a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come from a citywith people born on a blacklist.I come from a countrywhich has since ceased to exist.I come from a culturewhere nothing is what it seems,full of loud delusions and stifling truths,where language conceals. I grew on an ice flow that was cracking and breaking in spring.I had to grow my roots wide.So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[267,55,268,19,23,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}