{"id":39312,"date":"2017-08-05T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39312"},"modified":"2017-08-05T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:09:30","slug":"hour-10-prompt-10-when-color-mattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-10-prompt-10-when-color-mattered\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10 &#8211; Prompt 10 &#8211; When color mattered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two children, neighbours,<br \/>\nwent to the same school<br \/>\nand had the same set of friends<\/p>\n<p>Over time, one child withdrew into himself<br \/>\nQuiet, shy, reserved, eyes downcast<br \/>\nHis parents struggled to understand this change<\/p>\n<p>Till one day, they realized the cause<br \/>\nThe children and a few elders teased<br \/>\ntheir son regularly and called him &#8220;Dark&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They wounded the innocent mind with harsh words<br \/>\nThey isolated him from activities<br \/>\nThey bruised the tender mind repeatedly<\/p>\n<p>When did the color of skin start to matter?<br \/>\nWhen the color of blood in our veins is the same<br \/>\nWhen we all fade into ashes, after our last breath<\/p>\n<p>When the Sun, Earth, Wind, Rain don&#8217;t discriminate<br \/>\nWhy does man then get tangled in the maze of colours?<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t life about living, our actions, beyond the color of skin?<\/p>\n<p>(c) Vijaya Gowrisankar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two children, neighbours, went to the same school and had the same set of friends Over time, one child withdrew into himself Quiet, shy, reserved, eyes downcast His parents struggled to understand this change Till one day, they realized the cause The children and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312","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\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39320,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312\/revisions\/39320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}