{"id":961,"date":"2013-12-25T00:56:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2022-12-25T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T10:45:20","slug":"a-street-childs-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/25\/a-street-childs-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A street child&#8217;s Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_125118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"    wp-image-962\" title=\"Beggar boy on Christmas eve\" src=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_125118-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Beggar boy on Christmas eve\" width=\"322\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_125118-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_125118-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131224_125118.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beggar boy on Christmas eve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I woke up in the darkest dawn<br \/>And found it was not Christmas.<br \/>The boxes were all gaily torn<br \/>And colors hid in darkness.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The virgin mothers of my time<br \/>Have fought to break the ageless<br \/>Time of children in soot and grime<br \/>Left lost among the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>But barefoot prophets echo cries,<br \/>No hunger shall be endless.<br \/>The people glance at eastern skies<br \/>And rejoice at sparkling lightness.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up in the darkest dawn<br \/>And knew it was not Christmas.<br \/>We wake each other now instead<br \/>With street songs. Hark! they cheer us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-968\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Photo0139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-968\" title=\"A virgin mother of Timog Avenue\" src=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Photo0139-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A virgin mother of Timog Avenue\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Photo0139-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Photo0139-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Photo0139.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A virgin mother of Timog Avenue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6>25 December 2013, 12:56 am; 4th stanza added 29 December 2013; 25 December 2022 changed &#8220;break the enigmas \/ Of children wrapped in&#8230;&#8221;<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/junverzola\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Follow @junverzola<\/a><br \/><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up in the darkest dawn<br \/>\nAnd found it was not Christmas.<br \/>\nThe boxes were all gaily torn<br \/>\nAnd colors hid in darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,8],"tags":[146,407,183,209],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-2","category-personal","tag-christmas","tag-homeless","tag-non-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}