{"id":321632,"date":"2017-08-14T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-world-according-to-a-child-soldier\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:10:37","slug":"the-world-according-to-a-child-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-world-according-to-a-child-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"The World According to a Child-Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my first day at school I learn to<br \/>\nsay \u2018yes\u2019 to everything, to accept the dogs\u2019 fight<br \/>\nfor the best seat at the open-screen cinema.<\/p>\n<p>I learn the silence of a dry pen,<br \/>\nlost in a great pile of bones.<\/p>\n<p>I learn to agree with the history,<br \/>\nfor it has the right to choose terror<br \/>\nover Vermeer\u2019s \u2018Girl in Hyacinth Blue\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>All my books have a few missing chapters but<br \/>\nmy teacher says that acceptance, not hope,<br \/>\nis the best weapon against dreams.<\/p>\n<p>I learn that I was not born a slave but<br \/>\nI became one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/08\/the-world-according-to-a-child-soldier\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my first day at school I learn to say \u2018yes\u2019 to everything, to accept the dogs\u2019 fight for the best seat at the open-screen cinema. I learn the silence of a dry pen, lost in a great pile of bones. I learn to agree with the history, for it has the right to choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}