{"id":14448,"date":"2012-11-30T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2012-11-30T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:17:30","slug":"i-call-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14448","title":{"rendered":"I call on You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I Call On You<\/strong><br \/>\nby Palestinian poet Tawfiq Zayyad<br \/>\nTranslated by As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call on you<br \/>\nI press your hands<br \/>\nI kiss the ground under your feet<br \/>\nand I say: I sacrifice myself for you<br \/>\nI give you as a gift<br \/>\nthe light of my eyes<br \/>\nand the warmth of heart, I give you<br \/>\nMy tragedy that I live<br \/>\nIs my share of your tragedies<br \/>\nI call on you<br \/>\nI press your hands<br \/>\nI kiss the ground under your feet<br \/>\nand I say: I sacrifice myself for you<br \/>\nI did not humiliate myself in my homeland<br \/>\nand I did not lower my shoulders<br \/>\nI stood facing my oppressors<br \/>\norphaned, naked, and bare foot<br \/>\nI call on you<br \/>\nI press your hands<br \/>\nI kiss the ground under your feet<br \/>\nand I say: I sacrifice myself for you<br \/>\nI carried my blood on my palm<br \/>\nI never lowered my flags<br \/>\nand I cared for the green grass<br \/>\nover the graves of my ancestors\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.fr\/2012\/11\/i-call-on-you.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D14448&amp;text=I+call+on+You&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Call On You by Palestinian poet Tawfiq Zayyad Translated by As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil \u201cI call on you I press your hands I kiss the ground under your feet and I say: I sacrifice myself for you I give you as a gift the light of my eyes and the warmth of heart, I give you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14448#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3757],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14449,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions\/14449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}