{"id":485,"date":"2021-04-14T12:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/?p=485"},"modified":"2021-08-31T19:39:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:39:04","slug":"being-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/being-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Manisha Majumdar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a mother<br \/>\nA patriarch to my daughter<br \/>\nA matriarch to my son<br \/>\nParenting like a catamaran sailing-<\/p>\n<p>The liberated select cocoon around me<br \/>\nIs too polite to ask questions<br \/>\nOn my MOTHER SHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Our lives are filled with \u2018Too much\u2019 \u2018Too little, \u2018Too late\u2019<br \/>\nIn an allegedly wild way.<br \/>\nMy professional clutches values independence<br \/>\nMy motherly instinct drapes security.<\/p>\n<p>The silent acceptance\u2026<br \/>\nThe cultural tipping points\u2026<br \/>\nThe unexplored spaces of dissent and love \u2013<br \/>\nWith the mind-altering possibilities, unfaltering vistas,<br \/>\nI see how the world leaning in on us.<\/p>\n<p>The big cracks in the unfeeling power structure give me pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>The impulse to live<br \/>\nThe impulse to be free\u2026<br \/>\nCan\u2019t take the mother out of me!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Manisha Majumdar is a social worker and mother. All the views expressed in this blog are author&#8217;s personal views,\u00a0<em><strong>It&#8217;s Possible<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0does not necessarily endorse it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Manisha Majumdar &nbsp; I am a mother A patriarch to my daughter A matriarch to my son Parenting like a catamaran sailing- The liberated select cocoon around me Is too polite to ask questions On my MOTHER SHIP. Our lives are filled with \u2018Too much\u2019 \u2018Too little, \u2018Too late\u2019 In an allegedly wild way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}