{"id":4243,"date":"2026-10-31T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2026-10-31T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:25:17","slug":"echoes-of-the-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/english-poetry\/echoes-of-the-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of the Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Some childhood memories never grow old,<br>They simply become echoes in our heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laughter once rose with the morning sun,<br>Little feet raced and games were begun.<br>The swings whisper, the tall trees sway,<br>Holding the sweet secrets of yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A whistle once called us: &#8220;Come, it&#8217;s time!&#8221;<br>And small victories felt like a mountain climb.<br>We laughed, we fell, we learned to stand,<br>With dusty clothes, bruised knees, and a friend&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We chased the flying wind and autumn leaves,<br>The climbing branches of the welcoming trees.<br>A twig became a sword, a stone a throne,<br>In kingdoms that we ruled and called our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Girls used to sit where time stood still,<br>Upon the slope of that familiar green hill.<br>The soil holds the weight of long ago,<br>Where tiny steps were eager first to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We used to fight over the smallest things,<br>Then forget our quarrels as friendship sings.<br>But somehow&#8230; all of that has gone,<br>And those beautiful days have moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Astha Pandey, DAV Jhingurdah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some childhood memories never grow old,They simply become echoes in our heart.&#8221; Laughter once rose with the morning sun,Little feet raced and games were begun.The swings whisper, the tall trees sway,Holding the sweet secrets of yesterday. A whistle once called us: &#8220;Come, it&#8217;s time!&#8221;And small victories felt like a mountain climb.We laughed, we fell, we &#8230; <a title=\"Echoes of the Playground\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/english-poetry\/echoes-of-the-playground\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Echoes of the Playground\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowo8q9DA:productID":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[81,3,388],"tags":[618,462,620,21,614,621,619,37],"ppma_author":[288],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children","category-english-poetry","category-life","tag-childhood-memories","tag-children","tag-echoes","tag-english-poetry","tag-friendship","tag-old-memories","tag-playground","tag-poetry","author-admin"],"authors":[{"term_id":288,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"admin","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8bfa617efccc23dd0cf889502f3f77dd9669bdedf2c14b23476d993fb48c4011?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruhemohabbat.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}