{"id":1355,"date":"2021-03-30T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2021-10-26T05:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T05:27:13","slug":"to-belong-to-everywhere-an-army-kid-she-must-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"To belong to everywhere- An Army kid she must be then!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1355\" class=\"elementor elementor-1355\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-468c5e50 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"468c5e50\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-362cf337\" data-id=\"362cf337\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5272a4c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5272a4c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1356 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/army-kid-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"301\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Someone asked her \u2018so where do you belong to\u2019 and she looked puzzled,<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">For the entire country was her home and she belonged to the whole of it.<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">To the place she was born at- in the Military Hospital, where her dad was pursuing a course.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">To the High mountains, he called field posting, which she visited occasionally<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">during her school vacations and played in the fresh snow with much delight.<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">She feasted on the ripe apricots and enjoyed butter tea sitting by the Bukhari.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">She belonged to the far east, where she made friends with the first sunlight of the country.<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">She spoke to the sparkling waters of the mighty Brahmaputra and river Lohit became her pal,<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The expansive tea gardens never had enough of her and always asked more of her.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">She also belonged to the south, where she made lots of friends on her dad\u2019s peace posting.<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">And to the colourful West where her mom had chosen to live while her dad served in field locations.<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u2018oh!! An army kid then you must be\u2019, said the guy, for they are the ones who belong to everywhere and to nowhere.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">They flow like water and waft in the air like the sweet spring fragrance,<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">They take in the culture of every place they go to, and call it their home till dad gets his new posting,<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">And with that they move again- To adapt to a new culture and to call it home.<\/span><\/strong><br \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/><br \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u00a0\u00a9Aradhana Mishra<\/span><\/strong><br \/><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked her \u2018so where do you belong to\u2019 and she looked puzzled,For the entire country was her home and she belonged to the whole [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,51,101,237],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-english","tag-army-kid","tag-brat","tag-english-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}