{"id":1217,"date":"2012-02-12T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2023-02-12T05:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T12:17:21","slug":"my-mothers-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"My mother\u2019s habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jessicagavin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/how-to-clean-leeks-1.jpg\" width=\"603\" height=\"905\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s habits<\/p>\n<p>Leaks and not leeks<br \/>\nI declare, mortally offended<br \/>\nby a young British student<br \/>\nand her English (as she is spoke)<\/p>\n<p>I excuse myself, though<br \/>\nwhilst correcting her mixing<br \/>\nher vegetables with the state<br \/>\nof a little wooden structure<br \/>\ndonated to a poor community<\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s habits<br \/>\ntea-drinkingly English<br \/>\nof nature as it were<br \/>\nin a manner of speaking<\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s habits<br \/>\na teacher-mother who<br \/>\ninspired shaped liberated<br \/>\nand decolonised the mind<\/p>\n<p>She who (once) jested<br \/>\nover a weekly paper\u2019s title<br \/>\non our Shaik-like Selebi<br \/>\nMe and Mbeki come from far<br \/>\nsaid he, his face on straight<\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s habits<br \/>\nteacher activist and librarian<br \/>\nretired her mind now<br \/>\ndischarged from itself<br \/>\nsomewhere (and somehow)<\/p>\n<p>My mother\u2019s habits<br \/>\nknowing her leaks<br \/>\nfrom her leeks<br \/>\nand the other way too<\/p>\n<p>After all, such-like<br \/>\nand the Oxford comma<br \/>\nis what separates us<br \/>\nhumankind from the beasts<br \/>\nwho daily put our women<br \/>\nand children at risk<\/p>\n<p>I find a moment in a TWC (The Women\u2019s Circle) meeting to tease a British student and TWC volunteer, around and about the linguistic leakage in her mother\u2019s tongue, Feb 9 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother\u2019s habits Leaks and not leeks I declare, mortally offended by a young British student and her English (as she is spoke) I excuse myself, though whilst correcting her mixing her vegetables with the state of a little wooden structure donated to a poor community My mother\u2019s habits tea-drinkingly English of nature as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,83,732],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26905,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/26905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}