{"id":34,"date":"2020-04-28T16:53:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/?post_type=rara-portfolio&#038;p=34"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:53:58","slug":"her-rug","status":"publish","type":"rara-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/portfolio\/her-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Rug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"flex-container\">\n  <div class=\"image-container\">\n    <img\n      src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/files\/2020\/04\/her-rug-2-scaled.jpg\"\n      alt=\"her rug 2\"\n    \/>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"image-container\">\n    <img\n      src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/files\/2020\/04\/her-rug-1-scaled.jpg\"\n      alt=\"her rug 1\"\n    \/>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"poem-caption\">\n  The high-end outdoor Mamila Mall of West Jerusalem.  A street corner in a Palestine refugee camp.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"poem-text\">\n  <p>I saw a rug<br>\n    in an Israeli shop<br>\n    late on a Tuesday<br>\n    West Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n<p>I stopped in my tracks<br>\n    my roommate asked<br>\n    what\u2019s wrong?<br>\n    I gulped down a sob<\/p>\n\n<p>Because I had seen her rug<br>\n    the one she lifted<br>\n    to show me the sewage<br>\n    seeping into the children\u2019s bedroom<\/p>\n\n<p>I started to walk<br>\n    my roommate asked<br>\n    is it hard to see?<br>\n    I stifled the fire in my belly<\/p>\n\n<p>I saw my future<br>\n    and I answered<br>\n    it\u2019s harder to live it<br>\n    and that was the end of that<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a rug<br \/>\n    in an Israeli shop<br \/>\n    late on a Tuesday<br \/>\n    West Jerusalem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","rara_portfolio_categories":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara-portfolio\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rara-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rara_portfolio_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rara_portfolio_categories?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}