{"id":13,"date":"2006-09-27T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-02-07T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T12:44:24","slug":"muddied-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2006\/muddied-water.html","title":{"rendered":"Muddied Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There it was again, <br \/>\nthe sound of fury<br \/>\nEchoing from the vast paddy field and <br \/>\nPierced into my ears like Pok Su&#8217;s kris<br \/>\nPenetrating the innocent lime as <br \/>\nSudden rush of fright hustled through my body<br \/>\nI was wet and nude, with my soggy dirty pals <br \/>\nAll rushing to seek asylum from that fearful sound. <br \/>\nJusoh, Wani, Jali and I, running naked in the bendang<br \/>\nTerrified yet our faces were decorated with bright smile <br \/>\nAnd melodious laughter accompanied each step that we took<br \/>\nAs the coconut trees dance to the addictive tune of Mak Yong <br \/>\nSeemed begging to be part of our little world <br \/>\nWe could not stop to grant them permission as <br \/>\nOur tired footsteps trotted the red dusty route back home <br \/>\nAlas! Jusoh, Wani and Jali made it but I didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nI was trapped by that terrified sound, <br \/>\ntoo strong for me to fight <br \/>\nIt came from a figure in a familiar cheongsam, <br \/>\nAgain assaulting my fragile eardrums <br \/>\nAnd my bare body was dragged home <br \/>\nAll because of the muddied water <br \/>\nThat had shaped my colourful life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There it was again, the sound of fury Echoing from the vast paddy field and Pierced into my ears like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}