{"id":3791,"date":"2019-09-07T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtls.wpcenter.io\/issue24\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:03:26","slug":"imani-ashari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/imani-ashari\/","title":{"rendered":"Imani Ashari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Power of Apology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was swallowed by your rage<br>\nDrifting on the corrosive acids that fill your belly<br>\nI can see the ravenous rapids of your words<br>\nReady to sink me up ahead<br>\nI try to prepare for the rise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of your voice and palms<br>\nAnd the descent of my words and feelings<br>\nThen I spotted a limb on which to hang on to<br>\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d and with that and a hug<br>\nThe waters went still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Power of Apology I was swallowed by your rage Drifting on the corrosive acids that fill your belly I can see the ravenous rapids of your words Ready to sink me up ahead I try to prepare for the rise Of your voice and palms And the descent of my words and feelings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}