{"id":96919,"date":"2020-03-19T01:51:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=96919"},"modified":"2020-03-19T01:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:21:05","slug":"i-was-bullied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/19\/i-was-bullied\/","title":{"rendered":"I was bullied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nRecently I saw news about a boy from VKV, Sher who died.<br \/>\nAs a victim of bullying, I wanted you to publish my experience too.<br \/>\nI joined VKV Jirdin in the year 2007. The first year was smooth; one senior took care of me as her sister. But right after she left the school, I was one of the targets. There were a few seniors who hated me for no reasons; they were cruel to me. One of them, in particular, was very mean- she called me names like ugly, bhikari, patli, ghatiya. She would let me wash her dirty dishes. She would also make me remove her period-stained panties. When I resisted, she would threaten to beat me up with her friends. She bullied me a lot.<br \/>\nI talked about my experiences to the then principal, but she didn&#8217;t believe me\u2014instead, the hostel warden reprimanded me for exposing such &#8216;small matters&#8217;. I was later named the &#8216;Drama Queen&#8217; of my school.<br \/>\nDuring one of the parent\u2019s day, I begged my mother to take me home. I cried a lot. I left school soon, but the effects of bullying never left me. It has scared me.<br \/>\nI live with the trauma every day, still haunts me.<br \/>\n<strong>Sincerely, <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A former student<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, Recently I saw news about a boy from VKV, Sher who died. As a victim of bullying, I wanted you to publish my experience too. I joined VKV Jirdin in the year 2007. The first year was smooth; one senior took care of me as her sister. But right after she left the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96919","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=96919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}