{"id":9116,"date":"2022-06-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:58:47","slug":"only-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/only-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Children!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Only Children! 6\/03\/22\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=49tcp-12367f4-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>we marched to school each morning<br>with only one intent&nbsp;<br>to strengthen our minds with knowledge&nbsp;<br>and understand what our parents meant<br>when we were children&nbsp;<\/strong><br><br>we marched side by side, slowly<br>trusting that we would be fine&nbsp;<br>that some hero would protect us&nbsp;<br>no one told us we were walking blind<br>we were only children&nbsp;<br><br><strong>we sat in closets, quiet&nbsp;<br>with no one daring to move&nbsp;<br>our hands and prayers raised up high&nbsp;<br>oh, how our parents would disapprove&nbsp;<br>we were only children<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><br>we did nothing to him<br>but you see us on the news&nbsp;<br>our faces will be remembered&nbsp;<br>and now it\u2019s time to accuse<br>we were only children&nbsp;<br><br><strong>they blame it on the people&nbsp;<br>with no thought being played&nbsp;<br>to the weapons bringing violence&nbsp;<br>to his tragic escapade&nbsp;<br>they forget the children&nbsp;<br><br><em>the blame is always placed<br>but no reforms are ever made&nbsp;<br>we marched to school so blindly&nbsp;<br>and we were still betrayed.<br>we were only children.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Felicity Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How does this poem make YOU feel inside? Is there anything YOU are going to DO with that feeling inside of YOU to make this world of ours a better world?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T GIVE GOD INSTRUCTIONS\u2026.JUST REPORT FOR DUTY!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we marched to school each morningwith only one intent&nbsp;to strengthen our minds with knowledge&nbsp;and understand what our parents meantwhen we were children&nbsp; we marched side by side, slowlytrusting that we would be fine&nbsp;that some hero would protect us&nbsp;no one told us we were walking blindwe were only children&nbsp; we sat in closets, quiet&nbsp;with no one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture-150x137.png",150,137,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture.png",206,137,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture-140x100.png",140,100,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mother-with-Picture-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"we marched to school each morningwith only one intent&nbsp;to strengthen our minds with knowledge&nbsp;and understand what our parents meantwhen we were children&nbsp; we marched side by side, slowlytrusting that we would be fine&nbsp;that some hero would protect us&nbsp;no one told us we were walking blindwe were only children&nbsp; we sat in closets, quiet&nbsp;with no one&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9118,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/9118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}