{"id":488,"date":"2021-04-14T12:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/?p=488"},"modified":"2021-08-31T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:39:00","slug":"children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/children\/","title":{"rendered":"Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Manisha Majumdar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My children are the nostalgic reminder of choices, dreams, habits<\/p>\n<p>And the history of intimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder of the galaxy of emotions, whispers, and gullible genes<\/p>\n<p>That had gone into making them<\/p>\n<p>Distinct and yet connected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are always moments of pause when I think<\/p>\n<p>\u2018what if\u2019 they are not been born\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Would I repent not being a mother?<\/p>\n<p>Are they chosen or destined?<\/p>\n<p>Do they belong to culture or nature?<\/p>\n<p>Can they be called as my creation?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interwoven destinies or divine beings<\/p>\n<p>With each one of them there is reclamation of my femininity<\/p>\n<p>Inevitable and distant\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Filtered through my stages of life<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the errors and happiness of being and living<\/p>\n<p>And of inexplicable love<\/p>\n<p>Beyond territories of norms and DNA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Manisha Majumdar is a social worker and mother. All the views expressed in this blog are author&#8217;s personal views,\u00a0<em><strong>It&#8217;s Possible<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0does not necessarily endorse it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Manisha Majumdar &nbsp; My children are the nostalgic reminder of choices, dreams, habits And the history of intimacy. Reminder of the galaxy of emotions, whispers, and gullible genes That had gone into making them Distinct and yet connected. &nbsp; There are always moments of pause when I think \u2018what if\u2019 they are not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phia.org.in\/itspossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}