{"id":20679,"date":"2019-12-14T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20679"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:01:39","slug":"anita-goveas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/anita-goveas\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Goveas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Titles of my autobiography I have discarded<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Everything I know I learned from my mother<br \/>\n-Life changed the second time my sister went into hospital<br \/>\n-Shame is a social construct<br \/>\n-My first day at nursery, the teacher blushed when I described an aubergine<br \/>\n-While my parents argued, my sister made up potions to cure them and I wrote stories about lizards<br \/>\n-The things I learnt from my parents about a long-distance marriage<br \/>\n-My first memory is my sister coughing while she sang<br \/>\n-These are the stories handed down in my family<br \/>\n-When my sister couldn\u2019t go to University, I became a doctor<br \/>\n-Summers in Mumbai, winters in Essex<br \/>\n-The first time I made daal, I burnt the spices<br \/>\n-I found out I was allergic to fruitcake at my wedding<br \/>\n-My nana taught me to make egg curry through Skype<br \/>\n-There are no pictures of my father in my parents\u2019 house<br \/>\n-In Mumbai, there\u2019s no concept of personal space<br \/>\n&#8211;Some stories don\u2019t travel well between continents<br \/>\n-On my sister\u2019s first day at primary school, the teacher laughed when she described an aubergine<br \/>\n-How do you find what you\u2019re looking for if you don\u2019t know what it is?<br \/>\n-You can\u2019t buy saffron in Saffron Walden<br \/>\n-Mother said my first word was medicine<br \/>\n-My mother was an unreliable narrator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anita Goveas<\/strong> is British-Asian, based in London, and fueled by strong coffee and paneer jalfrezi. She\u2019s on the editorial team at Flashback Fiction, an editor at Mythic Picnic\u2019s Twitter zine, and tweets erratically @coffeeandpaneer Links to her stories can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575632141832000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEaMFj336-6B_M6d_NSDvgsVWSfHg\">https:\/\/coffeeandpaneer.<wbr \/>wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titles of my autobiography I have discarded -Everything I know I learned from my mother -Life changed the second time my sister went into hospital -Shame is a social construct -My first day at nursery, the teacher blushed when I described an aubergine -While my parents argued, my sister made up potions to cure them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24198,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20679\/revisions\/24198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}