{"id":31962,"date":"2013-07-22T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=31962"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:03","slug":"indias-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/07\/indias-children\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Children<br \/>\nBorn malnourished and underweight<br \/>\nGet hopeless education<br \/>\nEat mid-day meals and even get killed<br \/>\nSuffer un- and under-employment<br \/>\nBecome coolies and clerks<br \/>\nLive and die poor<\/p>\n<p>Our Leaders\u2019 Children<br \/>\nBorn with a silver spoon in their mouths<br \/>\nGet world-class education<br \/>\nEat sumptuous meals and live very well<br \/>\nAssured powerful and profitable employment<br \/>\nBecome MLAs, MPs, Ministers, CMs and even PM<br \/>\nBecome rich and famous and powerful<\/p>\n<p>________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>S.P. Udayakumar, Ph.D. \u2013 Tamil Nadu, India:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>* SACCER-South Asian Community Center for Education and Research (promoting life-long, life-wide and life-deep education)<\/em><i><br \/>\n<em>* TRANSCEND Network, South Asia Convener (TSA) (For Rethinking South Asia)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>* People\u2019s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>* National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) (For a Nuclear-Free India that has No Deals, No Mines, No Reactors, No Dumps, and No Bombs).<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Children<br \/>\nBorn malnourished and underweight<br \/>\nGet hopeless education<br \/>\nEat mid-day meals and even get killed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31962","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=31962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}