{"id":115816,"date":"2018-08-06T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=115816"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:36:18","slug":"do-not-deprive-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/08\/do-not-deprive-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Deprive Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Poems about Palestine<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do not deprive me from that gentle smile<br \/>\nFor I\u2019ve been debating whether to live or die<br \/>\nHeaven shakes when I see that face<br \/>\nAnd makes me optimistic that there will come a day<br \/>\nFull of laughter, and then my sorrows will dissipate<br \/>\nSo do not take away from me that gentle smile<\/p>\n<p>I promise you that I won\u2019t get in your way<br \/>\nBut make me choose to live rather than to die<br \/>\nAnd let me look forward to that special smile<br \/>\nTo lift me up when I\u2019m feeling down and depressed<br \/>\nFor God in heaven had made my heart compressed<br \/>\nAnd filled it up with sorrows and distress<\/p>\n<p>I make my plea through the silent night<br \/>\nWhen my aching soul is about to flee<br \/>\nThe sadness and loneliness it is a witness to<br \/>\nTo God I pray to fill my life with light<br \/>\nAnd take away from me the loneliness of the night<\/p>\n<p>Happiness is bound to visit me one day<br \/>\nSo \u2018till then I plea, in God\u2019s name, to humor me<br \/>\nAnd not take that gentle smile away from me<br \/>\nGloomy place I look at\u2026 full of darkness<br \/>\nCrows linger by\u2026 with no smile\u2026 full of madness<br \/>\n_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9Laila Yaghi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poems about Palestine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}