{"id":1485,"date":"2006-06-26T18:17:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2006-06-26T18:17:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:17:17","slug":"nothings-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Nothing?s changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small round hard stones click<br \/>\nunder my heels,<br \/>\nseeding grasses thrust<br \/>\nbearded seeds<br \/>\ninto trouser cuffs, cans,<br \/>\ntrodden on, crunch<br \/>\nin tall, purple-flowering,<br \/>\namiable weeds.<\/p>\n<p>District six.<br \/>\nNo board says it is:<br \/>\nbut my feet know,<br \/>\nand my hands,<br \/>\nand the skin about my bones,<br \/>\nand the soft labouring of my lungs,<br \/>\nand the hot, white, inwards turning<br \/>\nanger of my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Brash with glass,<br \/>\nname flaring like a flag,<br \/>\nit squats<br \/>\nin the grass and weeds,<br \/>\nincipient Port Jackson trees:<br \/>\nnew, up-market, haute cuisine,<br \/>\nguard at the gatepost,<br \/>\nwhites only inn.<\/p>\n<p>No sign says it is:<br \/>\nBut we know where we belong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southafrica.poetryinternationalweb.org\/piw_cms\/cms\/cms_module\/index.php?obj_id=5497\">? 2000<\/a>, Tatamkhulu Afrika<br \/>\nFrom:Maqabane<br \/>\nPublisher: Mayibuye, South Africa, 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small round hard stones click under my heels, seeding grasses thrust bearded seeds into trouser cuffs, cans, trodden on, crunch in tall, purple-flowering, amiable weeds. District six. No board says it is: but my feet know, and my hands, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-nX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}