{"id":45231,"date":"2021-06-24T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/yemaya\/ancient-food-for-future-generations"},"modified":"2021-08-25T02:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T02:19:47","slug":"ancient-food-for-future-generations","status":"publish","type":"yemaya","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/yemaya\/ancient-food-for-future-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient food for future generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ancient food for future generations&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sherry Pictou<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This poem is dedicated to the struggles of clam fishers in Canada against the privatization of fishing areas<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My heart is overflowing<br \/>\nwith Grandma Sarah<br \/>\nteaching us to dig clams<br \/>\nand as she wraps all of our harvest<br \/>\nin foil over the heated coals<br \/>\nbeneath the sand<br \/>\nI knew this was for me<br \/>\nand my lifetime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And those life times<br \/>\nbefore and after me<br \/>\nwhere shell heaps<br \/>\nbare the answers to our existence<br \/>\nin both life and death&#8230;<br \/>\nThe clam&#8230; the beautiful clam<br \/>\nhidden within its intergenerational<br \/>\npurple blue shell:<br \/>\nthe food of life &#8212;<br \/>\nancient food for future generations&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my brother&#8230;<br \/>\nSo contented as you walk slowly<br \/>\nthe back roads&#8230;..<br \/>\nWith your bucket full of clams<br \/>\nand clam hack&#8230;<br \/>\nSo serene and quiet<br \/>\nthis walk of ancient paths<br \/>\nYou carrying<br \/>\nso quietly<br \/>\nthe ancestral knowledge<br \/>\nwhich the rest of us &#8212;<br \/>\nwere too self absorbed<br \/>\nin the fast paced of tomorrow<br \/>\nthus not able to learn or feel<br \/>\nwith our hearts, today&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I see you there<br \/>\nwith your shucking knife<br \/>\nand for a second<br \/>\ntrying to teach me&#8230;.<br \/>\nAs Your ancient laughter<br \/>\nof fathers and grandfathers<br \/>\nbefore you&#8230;<br \/>\nRing loud to this day<br \/>\nin my heart of all hearts<br \/>\nas I struggled to learn<br \/>\nthis art now floating along<br \/>\nbay shores and inlets&#8230;<br \/>\nand continue to do so&#8230;<br \/>\nToday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":432,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"region":[],"source":[],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"yemaya_category":[5250],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/yemaya"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65078,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45231\/revisions\/65078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=45231"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=45231"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=45231"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=45231"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=45231"},{"taxonomy":"yemaya_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya_category?post=45231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}