{"id":1438,"date":"2010-04-15T18:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:27:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:27:18","slug":"the-flower-in-the-slum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"The flower in the slum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by\u00a0 Peace Nakitto<\/p>\n<p>The children of KYDA put up an amazing concert of music, dance and drama. This wasn\u2019t just about staging up an entertaining time for the volunteers, but letting us all know that in the middle of all our challenges, there is something good. Their voices reach out through the slums, where nobody really dares go, they feel that their music, dance and drama can change this and make a difference for so many other children. In a their lyrics, the children sing;<br \/>\nThis is where flowers grow<br \/>\nIn different colours they glow<br \/>\nThey give birth to joy every morning<br \/>\nWhere a child seems to be mourning<br \/>\nI would like to share this flower with you<br \/>\nHoping that you can find a place<br \/>\nTo change the look on that face<br \/>\nIt is not about what you don\u2019t have<br \/>\nBut what you are trying to find<br \/>\nThe music in your heart still lives<br \/>\nIt is just waiting for you to give<br \/>\nAll you need is to SMILE<br \/>\nBut this will cost you a MILE<br \/>\nWhich is worth the try<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t have to cry<br \/>\nJust sing, dance and play<br \/>\nThen you will find a beautiful vase<br \/>\nIn which that flower can live!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1452\" title=\",\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dsc_0216-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\",\" width=\"673\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dsc_0216-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dsc_0216-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A concert by the children, a flower in the slum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}