{"id":1311,"date":"2023-03-06T07:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:31:13","slug":"i-think-i-grew-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"I Think I Grew Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I grew up<br>When I found<br>My own friends wore perplexing masks<br>to climb rungs of success<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I grew up<br>When I discovered religion, race, or color<br>Were mere excuses for grownups<br>To shed blood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I grew up<br>When the chill of death<br>Froze and disoriented me<br>Then the real search for life&#8217;s answers began<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I grew up<br>When my adorable baby was declared<br>A baby bird with too short wings<br>I knew then, I had to be his wings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I grew up<br>When I understood, I&#8217;m alone my only strength<br>All other claimants were with me<br>Only to make me believe otherwise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I grew up<br>When my vain attempts of smiling to the world became my mask<br>While the dark cloud inside<br>soaked me with unshed tears<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I grew up<br>When I learned that the reins of my own life<br>were controlled by an invincible<br>Rider of the clouds above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I grew upWhen I foundMy own friends wore perplexing masksto climb rungs of success I think I grew upWhen I discovered religion, race, or colorWere mere excuses for grownupsTo shed blood I think I grew upWhen the chill of deathFroze and disoriented meThen the real search for life&#8217;s answers began I think I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-by-dr-ritu-dewan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}