{"id":14276,"date":"2012-11-21T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2012-11-21T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T22:10:33","slug":"little-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14276","title":{"rendered":"Little hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/042812_bahrainiDrawing12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/042812_bahrainiDrawing12-e1353535820553.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\" \" width=\"425\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Little hands<\/strong><br \/>\nby Lina Al-Sharif &#8211; 21 November, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Little hands<br \/>\nsoft and round<br \/>\ncupped crayons,<\/p>\n<p>in the corner of the paper,<\/p>\n<p>drew smiley sun painted yellow<\/p>\n<p>butterflies, swings, and green meadows,<br \/>\nhuddled family, a house with small windows,<br \/>\nand a cloudless sky with a rainbow,<\/p>\n<p>Little dreams,<br \/>\nthoughts of the unknown<br \/>\nas adventure bigger than their small world<\/p>\n<p>Where they roam, float, and soar,<\/p>\n<p>Laugh and agelessly grow,<\/p>\n<p>Little hands,<\/p>\n<p>But big tanks,<\/p>\n<p>With calloused hands,<\/p>\n<p>Found the house of small windows,<\/p>\n<p>Tore the crayoned rainbow<\/p>\n<p>Soft and round<br \/>\nbecame soon pillars of clouds,<\/p>\n<p>Buried into the ground<br \/>\nso small a shroud<br \/>\nso quite a sound,<\/p>\n<p>Little souls<\/p>\n<p>Soared with the dew<br \/>\nroamed with the dunes<br \/>\nLeft our world too soon,<\/p>\n<p>Little hands<br \/>\nnow will rain young forever,<br \/>\nno longer drawing dreams on paper,<br \/>\nLittle hands,<br \/>\ncup your hands together<br \/>\nand pray for their hands to be tied<br \/>\nforever,<br \/>\nforever and ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2012\/11\/little-hands.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D14276&amp;text=Little+hands+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little hands by Lina Al-Sharif &#8211; 21 November, 2012 Little hands soft and round cupped crayons, in the corner of the paper, drew smiley sun painted yellow butterflies, swings, and green meadows, huddled family, a house with small windows, and a cloudless sky with a rainbow, Little dreams, thoughts of the unknown as adventure bigger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=14276#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3734],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14278,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions\/14278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}