{"id":80061,"date":"2016-10-03T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=80061"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:22:21","slug":"death-of-a-toddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/10\/death-of-a-toddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O, Syrian child, armies of refugees, huddled together<br \/>\non rotting boats, on a fickle sea, washed ashore<br \/>\nlike detritus of a shipwrecked land:<br \/>\ndeath by hunger<br \/>\ndeath by mortar<br \/>\ndeath by fire<br \/>\ndeath by water.<\/p>\n<p>You were a little piece of heaven<br \/>\nborn amid the ruins.<br \/>\nAbove your head through shattered stones<br \/>\na crescent moon appeared<br \/>\nlike the pale, velvet flesh of your eyelids<br \/>\nin a land where the Tigris and Euphrates<br \/>\ncradled an empire.<\/p>\n<p>Your life was priceless like the others.<br \/>\nLike the Prince of Angels,<br \/>\nYou had a golden smile.<br \/>\nYet not even a god can bring back the dead.<br \/>\nYour eyes radiant as embers;<br \/>\ntwo jewels polished by a mother\u2019s glance.<br \/>\nSo loved were you by all the world who stood idly by<br \/>\nwhile your nation burned.<br \/>\n__________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Barbara Millar is a free-lance writer living in Northern California, USA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O, Syrian child, armies of refugees, huddled together<br \/>\non rotting boats, on a fickle sea, washed ashore<br \/>\nlike detritus of a shipwrecked land:<br \/>\ndeath by hunger<br \/>\ndeath by mortar &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80061","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=80061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}