{"id":501,"date":"2010-05-20T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=501"},"modified":"2010-05-20T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:34:08","slug":"if-a-new-poem-by-mahnaz-badhian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/if-a-new-poem-by-mahnaz-badhian\/","title":{"rendered":"If\/ a new poem by mahnaz Badhian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div class=&quot;leftbox&quot;<img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20100324-mahnaz_ sketch1.jpg' width='182' height='166' alt='mahnaz badihian' \/>&gt;<\/div>\n<p>\nBut the things are different,<br \/>\nbecause it happened different<br \/>\nI had moved to a place far from our garden<br \/>\nI have left my moon on the other side of the sky <!--more--><b>&#8230;.<br \/>\nIf<\/p>\n<p>We could be different<br \/>\nif only it did not happen this way.<br \/>\nWe could be sitting in that little garden house<br \/>\nthat our father built with red bricks years ago.<br \/>\nI could see you next to the apple trees, touching<br \/>\nits green, unripe apples with excitement<\/p>\n<p>We could be different if only it was different and<br \/>\ndid not happen the way it happened.<br \/>\nMy brother would be in the garden with us helping father<br \/>\ngathering dry, broken branches to start a fire<br \/>\nand his son would be able to pronounce my name !<br \/>\nIt could be different if only,<br \/>\nthings did not happen the way it happened<br \/>\nand I could call you on mother\u2019s day to tell you<br \/>\nhow much I loved the orange pants you had knitted<br \/>\n for me when I was only  a child, and tell you<br \/>\nhow it feels to be in menopause !<br \/>\nBut the things are different,<br \/>\nbecause it happened different<br \/>\nI had moved to a place far from our garden<br \/>\nI have left my moon on the other side of the sky<br \/>\nand it took me years to find a taste of a new apple<br \/>\n in the host  garden.<\/p>\n<p>\nMahnaz badihian<br \/>\n2010 SF<br \/>\n <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div class=&quot;leftbox&quot;&gt; But the things are different, because it happened different I had moved to a place far from our garden I have left my moon on the other side of the sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}