{"id":3627,"date":"2017-05-11T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T12:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2023-02-22T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:52:05","slug":"may-my-heart-be-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/may-my-heart-be-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"May My Heart Be Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>The Place of Hope<\/strong><br><em>by Mexx (6th grade)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May I be able to see the world<br>in just one leap.<br>May I have water, Kryptonian DNA,<br>and the bright yellow sun.<br>May I return to the home<br>where I lived happily with my family.<br>May I have a heart that never gives up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please don\u2019t let fear fall upon humans<br>and kill dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May I arrive at the place of hope.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>A Piece of the Sun<\/strong><br><em>by Basma&nbsp;(6th grade)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May I be able to create a medicine<br>to save everyone from cancer at once<br>May I have bread and anything that the sick patients desire<br>May I have fresh and beautiful water from the Nile River<br>to see the smile on the wonderful people<br>May I have a piece of the sun<br>and the most precious flowers on all of the earth<br>to make their faces glow<br>Lastly, may I exterminate the horrible creature<br>that wishes death upon everyone<br>May I return the sick ones<br>to their nice, peaceful, loving childhood<br>May I give my heart for the others to survive<br>Please, never let them face the fears of death<br>pain and sourness<br>May I take the sick ones to a waterfall<br>deep in the beautiful, meaningful forest<br>where they can thrive and survive<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>2017<br><em><strong>May My Heart Be Strong<\/strong><\/em><br>IS 187 Hudson Cliffs, New York, NY<br><em>David Surface,&nbsp;writer\u2010in\u2010residence<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student poetry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":3628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","featured_image_focal_point":[],"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1607,3192,3980,436,3214,3035","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13117,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/13117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachersandwritersmagazine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}