{"id":138120,"date":"2023-09-02T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138120"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:25:14","slug":"lets-not-forget-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/lets-not-forget-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Not Forget Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day I heard about the kids<\/p>\n<p>and where they were buried<\/p>\n<p>was the day my world stood still.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anger flowed through me<\/p>\n<p>as I wanted to yell out<\/p>\n<p>to the world<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sadness washed out the anger,<\/p>\n<p>as I thought of those innocent faces<\/p>\n<p>wiped away from the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one knows who they are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to cry.<\/p>\n<p>To cry for them,<\/p>\n<p>to cry for their parents<\/p>\n<p>who never got to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pure disappointment then came.<\/p>\n<p>I was in awe<\/p>\n<p>on how fast everyone<\/p>\n<p>got over it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I vowed to hold them in heart,<\/p>\n<p>because no one else would.<\/p>\n<p>I said to the air around me,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not forgot what pains they went through.<\/p>\n<p>those 215 children<\/p>\n<p>who lost their light<\/p>\n<p>at the end of their tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day I heard about the kids and where they were buried was the day my world stood still. &nbsp; Anger flowed through me as I wanted to yell out to the world \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with you!\u201d &nbsp; Sadness washed out the anger, as I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138120","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138123,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138120\/revisions\/138123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}