{"id":2637,"date":"2026-08-13T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:47:39","slug":"a-place-called-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/a-place-called-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A PLACE CALLED HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am in a place called home<br \/>\nunder my arm<br \/>\nIn between my toes<br \/>\nin the fire of my belly<br \/>\nall over the tapestry of infinite cells<br \/>\nof my eyes ability<br \/>\nand that of my ears, my nose<br \/>\nwithin and around this temple I call body<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am in a place called home<br \/>\nwithin the confines of my mind<br \/>\nand into the beyond vast horizons of this planet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Home in my place in the chain of chains<br \/>\nI feel the texture of home<br \/>\nwalking barefoot in a garden<br \/>\non a beach both wet and dry<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">climbing steps in a Paris subway<br \/>\ndescending a snow covered mountain on skis<br \/>\nwhispering to a little one I love<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I feel in that place called home<br \/>\neating fresh picked sugar snap peas<br \/>\nslicing onions, preparing foods<br \/>\neating the apples of Eden<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">home while choosing colors for a painting<br \/>\nwords for a poem<br \/>\nthoughts for a prayer<br \/>\nmoves for my body<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">this place, this NOW is<br \/>\nmy place called home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in a place called home under my arm In between my toes in the fire of my belly all over the tapestry of infinite cells of my eyes ability and that of my ears, my nose within and around this temple I call body I am in a place called home within the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/a-place-called-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A PLACE CALLED HOME<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6885],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6885"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 14:24:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}