{"id":241,"date":"2017-09-24T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/?p=241"},"modified":"2017-09-24T19:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:53:23","slug":"homelessness-and-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2017\/09\/24\/homelessness-and-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Homelessness and God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Homelessness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twilight, walking down Camden high street<br \/>\npast the bright open shops<br \/>\nand the full up pubs<br \/>\nI see him through a forest of legs<br \/>\nsitting by a lamp post<br \/>\nhis hands on his young ears<br \/>\nin the midst of the high noise.<br \/>\nHis back hunched<br \/>\nhis legs drawn up<br \/>\nmaking space for the passers-by.<br \/>\nMen and women are all around him<br \/>\ntalking and laughing<br \/>\nas if he is not there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When she heard she had given birth to a boy<br \/>\nall the pain lifted from her body<br \/>\nGod had listened to her prayers<br \/>\nand was sending her a copy of himself<br \/>\nhopefully he would look like her husband.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/liveencounters.net\/le-poetry-writing-2017\/10-october-pw-2017\/nasrin-parvaz-homelessness\/\">Live Encounters<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homelessness Twilight, walking down Camden high street past the bright open shops and the full up pubs I see him through a forest of legs sitting by a lamp post his hands on his young ears in the midst of the high noise. His back hunched his legs drawn up making space for the passers-by. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2017\/09\/24\/homelessness-and-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homelessness and God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,12],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}