{"id":39,"date":"2020-04-28T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/?post_type=rara-portfolio&#038;p=39"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:45:19","slug":"house-1","status":"publish","type":"rara-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/portfolio\/house-1\/","title":{"rendered":"House #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"flex-container\">\n  <div class=\"image-container\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/files\/2020\/04\/house1-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"house1 2\">\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"image-container\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/files\/2020\/04\/house1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"house1 1\">\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"poem-caption\">\n      Homes within the Al-Amari refugee camp in Palestine. Cooking Musakhan, a famous Palestinian dish of baked bread, chicken, suman, and onions on my \u201cAunt\u201d Sabah\u2019s kitchen floor.\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"poem-text\">\n  <p>\n    Warm home, cold floors<br>\n    Tall stairs, no refrigerator doors<br>\n    Onions and tomatoes in the stairway<br>\n    One trip up and back<br>\n    Only once a day<br>\n    I made that trip in a matter of minutes<br>\n    I can be daughter number eight<br>\n    He says to let me know I\u2019m welcome<br>\n    But I know I am a stranger<br>\n    I don\u2019t want to look around<br>\n    I don\u2019t want it to feel like a display<br>\n    His eyes are earnest<br>\n    His eyes are like his children\u2019s<br>\n    Hurting, sick<br>\n    My Arabic flows<br>\n    The interpreter&#8217;s English does not<br>\n    Am I missing anything valuable?<br>\n    I have his eyes<br>\n    Prescription medicines are pulled from the shelves<br>\n    The prices read to me<br>\n    That\u2019s not what I need to see<br>\n    But that\u2019s what he wants me to see<br>\n    He\u2019s trying to make me see<br>\n    Medicines for the eyes<br>\n    The hospital is too far away<br>\n    Surgeries every year<br>\n    The house is small<br>\n    There is no coffee to greet me<br>\n    But bread gets left on the front stoop<br>\n    Thank God<br>\n    There are nice people here<br>\n    They give Zakat<br>\n    We take care of each other<br>\n    When the UN cannot\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Warm home, cold floors<br \/>\n  Tall stairs, no refrigerator doors<br \/>\n  Onions and tomatoes in the stairway<br \/>\n  One trip up and back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":11,"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\/39"}],"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=39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/presidential-international-scholar-exhibit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"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=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}