{"id":1440,"date":"2010-11-16T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2010-12-08T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:19:30","slug":"de-la-mano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/2010\/11\/16\/de-la-mano\/","title":{"rendered":"De La Mano, by Ricardo Segovia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/love2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1447\" title=\"love\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/love2-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/love2-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/love2-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2010\/11\/love2.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>-image: Chaya Go<\/p>\n<p>You are a million miles away brother.<br \/>\nWhy should I bother?<br \/>\nWe do not share blood brother.<br \/>\nWhy do I care?<br \/>\nI arrive, uncertain.<br \/>\nYou offer me your bowl of colour,<br \/>\nthat I\u2019ve never tasted before\u2026<br \/>\nsounds of drums that reminisce with me,<br \/>\nfrom the very first beat.<br \/>\nAt first sight we may be perfect strangers.<br \/>\nSo why?<br \/>\nBecause your tears are clear like mine\u2026<br \/>\nyour fears are real and make-believe like mine.<br \/>\nOur mothers gave us the same side-ways glare<br \/>\nwhen we got too close to the rebel\u2019s edge.<br \/>\nAnd so I will step over the ocean,<br \/>\nwe\u2019ll sit around our steaming cups and conspire to inspire\u2026<br \/>\nchat for hours, speechlessly.<br \/>\nBrother, Sister,<br \/>\nI thought you needed a helping hand,<br \/>\nbut you led ME to safety and sanity\u2026<br \/>\nand away from the aimless thoughtless version of myself.<br \/>\nGracias hermano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-image: Chaya Go You are a million miles away brother. Why should I bother? We do not share blood brother. Why do I care? I arrive, uncertain. You offer me your bowl of colour, that I\u2019ve never tasted before\u2026 sounds of drums that reminisce with me, from the very first beat. At first sight we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}