{"id":262747,"date":"2025-04-20T00:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=262747"},"modified":"2025-04-20T00:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:52:16","slug":"the-heartbeat-of-school-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/the-heartbeat-of-school-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heartbeat of School (POEM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8212; Kalyan Kumar Dutta<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VKV Kharsang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>School\u2014a word so soft, so sweet,<br \/>\nWhere hearts and young minds always meet.<br \/>\nSix letters stitched in joy and pain,<br \/>\nOf sunshine, laughter, tears and rain.<\/p>\n<p>The bell that rings, the chalky board,<br \/>\nThe giggles that the walls record.<br \/>\nSo many memories safely stored,<br \/>\nIn every class, our spirits soared.<\/p>\n<p>From morning prayer to final bell,<br \/>\nWe dreamed, we rose, we tripped, we fell.<br \/>\nA thousand slip-ups, brave or shy,<br \/>\nEach held a tale we won\u2019t deny.<\/p>\n<p>We learned to stand, we learned to try,<br \/>\nTo chase our hopes and touch the sky.<br \/>\nWe passed quick notes with hearts so fast,<br \/>\nBelieving those sweet days would last.<\/p>\n<p>In halls and noisy canteen lines,<br \/>\nWe found our friends, our secret signs.<br \/>\nIn every cheer and every fear,<br \/>\nWe found a will to persevere.<\/p>\n<p>With teachers kind or sometimes stern,<br \/>\nWho lit the way and helped us learn.<br \/>\nNo blame, no shame\u2014just lessons deep,<br \/>\nTheir words within us still do sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Kalyan Kumar Dutta VKV Kharsang. School\u2014a word so soft, so sweet, Where hearts and young minds always meet. Six letters stitched in joy and pain, Of sunshine, laughter, tears and rain. The bell that rings, the chalky board, The giggles that the walls record. So many memories safely stored, In every class, our spirits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-spark"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}