{"id":42273,"date":"2015-03-13T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=42273"},"modified":"2015-03-13T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T19:13:57","slug":"yesterday-s-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/03\/13\/yesterday-s-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday s Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday you were an innocent child<\/p>\n<p>Today you are a killing machine holding a T56<\/p>\n<p>No feelings no remorse or passion<\/p>\n<p>What an unhealthy transformation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I saw you were going to school<\/p>\n<p>You carried books in your hands<\/p>\n<p>I could see \u00a0your innocent \u00a0smile<\/p>\n<p>Today I see blood in your hands<\/p>\n<p>They turned you in to a diminutive monster<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No longer I see your childish face<\/p>\n<p>Instead I see the atrocious eyes<\/p>\n<p>Filled with anger and hate<\/p>\n<p>You cast a deadly shadow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What happened to the yesterday s child?<\/p>\n<p>Who stole his childhood?\u00a0\u00a0and why?<\/p>\n<p>Fruitful and innocent youth<\/p>\n<p>Turned in to dust that \u00a0will never return<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday s child no longer you exist<\/p>\n<p>Your world is shattered<\/p>\n<p>The Promised Land is no more<\/p>\n<p>All you see is the wasteland with walking dead<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/transyl2014.blogspot.ca\/2015\/03\/yesterday-s-child.html\">http:\/\/transyl2014.blogspot.ca\/2015\/03\/yesterday-s-child.html<\/a><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Yesterday you were an innocent child Today you are a killing machine holding a T56 No feelings no remorse or passion What an unhealthy transformation &nbsp; Yesterday I saw you were going to school You carried books in your hands I could see \u00a0your innocent \u00a0smile Today I see blood in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-ruwan-m-jayatunge-m-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}