{"id":30,"date":"2019-12-02T22:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2019-12-09T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T19:28:49","slug":"memory-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"Memory (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/files\/2019\/12\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120\" width=\"460\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10023\/files\/2019\/12\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10023\/files\/2019\/12\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10023\/files\/2019\/12\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10023\/files\/2019\/12\/2018_10_26_57182_1540536384._large.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption> (Shutterstock\/Lightspring)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Memory<br> By Ayomide Ogundele<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life gave me memory<br>\nThe memory of a face<br>\nMy mother&#8217;s face<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was given to me to store an image in my brain<br>\nTo cherish<br>\nTo keep<br>\nTo remember<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dimple on her cheek<br>\nThe sparkle of her eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These things meant not to forget<br>\nAs life gets busy,<br>\nMemories start to blend into each other and fade away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First her smile<br>\nThen her eyes<br>\nSlowly fading away in my head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try to remember but my memory fails me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How will i describe what she looks like to my kids?<br>\nHow can I picture you in times of distress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory By Ayomide Ogundele Life gave me memory The memory of a face My mother&#8217;s face It was given to me to store an image in my brain To cherish To keep To remember The dimple on her cheek The sparkle of her eyes These things meant not to forget As life gets busy, Memories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21037,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"send_to_group_blog":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayomideogun.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}