{"id":421,"date":"2011-05-13T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/?p=421"},"modified":"2021-03-30T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:54:29","slug":"abstain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/students-articles\/abstain\/","title":{"rendered":"ABSTAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was only sixteen<br \/>\nAnd I had a big dream<br \/>\nMy dream was to be a doctor<br \/>\nFor the country\u2019s top medical team<\/p>\n<p>But now my dream is crushed<br \/>\nJust because of a stupid boy\u2019s touch<br \/>\nAt first it seemed harmless<br \/>\nBut I was so careless<\/p>\n<p>I began to cough and wheeze<br \/>\n I had contracted the syphilis disease<br \/>\nSex was so compelling<br \/>\nUntil my stomach started swelling<\/p>\n<p>Now as I walked the streets in shame<br \/>\nI hear them whisper my name<br \/>\nI know my life wouldn\u2019t be the same<br \/>\nJust because of that boy named Dwayne<\/p>\n<p>So please I beg of you<br \/>\nDon\u2019t do the same<br \/>\nListen to your parents, stay in school<br \/>\nAnd please ABSTAIN  <\/p>\n<p><strong>A fictional poem by Rhonda Jagroop &#8211; 3 Om<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was only sixteen And I had a big dream My dream was to be a doctor For the country\u2019s top medical team But now my dream is crushed Just because of a stupid boy\u2019s touch At first it seemed harmless But I was so careless I began to cough and wheeze I had contracted<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/students-articles\/abstain\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swahainternational.org\/shc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}