{"id":734,"date":"2013-08-05T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2013-08-03T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:08:39","slug":"fathers-child-by-colleen-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Child by Colleen Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FATHER\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S CHILD<br \/>\n<em>Athena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Choice<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From within\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfearless Metis opened her thighs<br \/>\nin blood she birthed me<br \/>\nthen fed me milk and words<br \/>\nMetis told me he had swallowed us<br \/>\nhoping to keep our wisdom<br \/>\nshe was content to wait and plan<br \/>\nknew I would do as I choose<\/p>\n<p>And so I chose<br \/>\nhe could not swallow destiny<br \/>\nand I battled with words<br \/>\nspeared his every thought<br \/>\nknowing full well my power<br \/>\nin my father<\/p>\n<p>He conceived an idea, words, a gender<br \/>\ntried to swallow the counsel of women<br \/>\ntried to digest me before I opposed<br \/>\nI did not spring from his head<br \/>\nMore my anger boiled too long<br \/>\nthat brought my release<\/p>\n<p>I countered until I won my way<br \/>\nout he called for Hephaestus<br \/>\nbright ingenious Hephaestus<br \/>\nwho swung his mighty axe<br \/>\nsplit the head of Zeus in two<\/p>\n<p>Out of that duality<br \/>\nI strode forth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/668px-Amphora_birth_Athena_Louvre_F32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-737 aligncenter\" alt=\"668px-Amphora_birth_Athena_Louvre_F32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/668px-Amphora_birth_Athena_Louvre_F32-300x269.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/668px-Amphora_birth_Athena_Louvre_F32-300x269.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/668px-Amphora_birth_Athena_Louvre_F32.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FATHER\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S CHILD Athena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Choice From within\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfearless Metis opened her thighs in blood she birthed me then fed me milk and words Metis told me he had swallowed us hoping to keep our wisdom she was content to wait and plan knew I would do as I choose And so I chose he could not swallow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}