{"id":254116,"date":"2024-02-12T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=254116"},"modified":"2024-02-10T05:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T05:55:43","slug":"i-am-just-a-child-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/02\/i-am-just-a-child-from-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am just a Child from Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t hear the birds singing<br \/>\nExcept the whine<br \/>\nOf the drones<br \/>\nAnd the missiles<br \/>\nComing at us in fury<\/p>\n<p>A garland of fire<br \/>\nA skeletal remains<br \/>\nOf our abode<br \/>\nVanishing dreams<br \/>\nAnd we have<br \/>\nNowhere to go<\/p>\n<p>I have lost my parents<br \/>\nDevoured by the flames<br \/>\nMy brothers and sisters<br \/>\nAnd all my friends too<br \/>\nShattering my dreams<br \/>\nOf better days to come<\/p>\n<p>I keep on asking<br \/>\nWhy am I spared<br \/>\nBut I know<br \/>\nI have to emerge<br \/>\nFrom the ashes<br \/>\nTo forgive<br \/>\nBut not to forget<br \/>\nFor I am<br \/>\nJust a child from Gaza<\/p>\n<p><em>4 Feb 2024<\/em><br \/>\n___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Jayanta Guha lives in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t hear the birds singing<br \/>\nExcept the whine<br \/>\nOf the drones<br \/>\nAnd the missiles<br \/>\nComing at us in fury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[554,87,865,88,715,427,868,481],"class_list":["post-254116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-children","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-poetry","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116","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=254116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254300,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116\/revisions\/254300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}