{"id":126037,"date":"2023-08-31T17:02:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126037"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:16:02","slug":"our-children-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/our-children-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Children Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Once upon a time<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I was a tiny toy on my moms\u2019 hands<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The apple of her\u00a0 eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With her love and tears<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am what I am<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With time<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I moved away from home<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Away from the festivals<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Away from the palm and mango groves<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Here in the midst of fast cars<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fast food and smart phones<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">High tech research and managed accounts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My childhood still resonates within me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am still my mom\u2019s tiny toy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Like all of us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">With an intense desire<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0To pass our culture and language<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Along with our genes)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To our kids<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The pupils of our eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Through our children<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The essence of our culture<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And our convictions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Clash and coalesce with the cultures of the world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our children get transformed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And they transform our vision<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">About<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our culture<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our children<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time I was a tiny toy on my moms\u2019 hands The apple of her\u00a0 eyes With her love and tears I am what I am With time I moved away from home Away from the festivals Away from the palm and mango&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126042,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126037\/revisions\/126042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}