{"id":808,"date":"2020-09-24T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/?p=808"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:40:11","slug":"bougainvillea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/bougainvillea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bougainvillea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>Bougainvillea,<br>I have put my trust in you&nbsp;<br>For one day only you shall adorn the graves of my war children<br>That day, there shall be no passersby to pay homage, and no ladies<br>Will adorn their hair with bright purple; that day,<br>No homes shall be left to climb and no houses to lean on.<br>And you shall be alone in dutiful peace to adorn the graves<br>Of my children, my&nbsp;mother;<br>For, the men who took&nbsp;my&nbsp;mother&nbsp;are now drinking oil<br>In my neighbourhood.<br>For now, the glabrous men are making wigs<br>Of&nbsp;war corpses.<br><br>Bougainvillea,<br>I have put my trust in you&nbsp;<br>For only you have withstood the unforgiving Sun!<br>So, before the men return to decorate their wigs,<br>Adorn the graves of my war children,<br>For I have put my trust in you&#8230; Bouganvillea.<br><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color\"><em><strong>Feature Image: Photograph by Sohini Saha<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bougainvillea,I have put my trust in you&nbsp;For one day only you shall adorn the graves of my war childrenThat day, there shall be no passersby to pay homage, and no &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jabardakhal.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}