{"id":273846,"date":"2025-11-16T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=273846"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:31:51","slug":"a-childhood-for-sale-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/a-childhood-for-sale-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A childhood for sale (POEM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8212; Akash Jyoti Pegu,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Dhemaji.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I count bricks instead of alphabets,<br \/>\nI carry a sack of coal instead of a school bag.<br \/>\nI build walls,<br \/>\nBut none to shelter my dreams.<br \/>\nI silence my cries,<br \/>\nBut the night still screams.<br \/>\nThey call it cheap labor,<br \/>\nBut every coin they toss me<br \/>\nIs a nail hammered into my childhood.<br \/>\nThe tears in my eyes are not for toys<br \/>\nBut for freedom-<br \/>\nFor a childhood stolen,<br \/>\nFor wings I never wore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Akash Jyoti Pegu, Dhemaji. I count bricks instead of alphabets, I carry a sack of coal instead of a school bag. I build walls, But none to shelter my dreams. I silence my cries, But the night still screams. They call it cheap labor, But every coin they toss me Is a nail hammered [&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-273846","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\/273846","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=273846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}