{"id":857,"date":"2006-03-13T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T10:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/857"},"modified":"2008-02-04T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:24:28","slug":"lost-cassete-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/857","title":{"rendered":"Lost Cassete tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday<br \/>\nI heard the voice of myself<br \/>\nat age 4<br \/>\nI spoke with a Persian inflection<br \/>\nas I said prayers into the microphone<br \/>\nage 5<br \/>\nI read from a children&#8217;s book<br \/>\nnot recognizing myself as I realized<br \/>\nthe strength of my southern accent<br \/>\n(South Carolina public schools)<br \/>\nBut when I spoke to my parents<br \/>\nI had no accent at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maman joon, Baba joon, Allah&#8217;u&#8217;abha.<br \/>\nThis is Sholeh, and I am going to say<br \/>\nsome prayers for you.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe messages that we sent my grandparents<br \/>\n17 years ago<br \/>\nbrought tears to my eyes,<br \/>\nthe slight lisp of my 4 year old sister<br \/>\nas she said her ABCs<br \/>\nand talked about riding the elephant at the circus<br \/>\nand sang prayers and children&#8217;s songs.<br \/>\n&#8220;Maman joon, Baba joon, can you come visit us?<br \/>\nWe will play with you, and we miss you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I heard the patient voice of my mother<br \/>\n&#8220;Ahfarin, Sholeh joon.&#8221; (Good job, Sholeh dear)<br \/>\nAs my 3 year old self<br \/>\npointed out objects: duck! moo! ob!<\/p>\n<p>Why do we forget the things<br \/>\nthat should never be left behind?<br \/>\nI cried today&#8230;<br \/>\nI wish I could go back sometimes<br \/>\nto that innocent child of my past<br \/>\nto let her know that I love her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I heard the voice of myself at age 4 I spoke with a Persian inflection as I said prayers into the microphone age 5 I read from a children&#8217;s book not recognizing myself as I realized the strength of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}