{"id":10137,"date":"2023-11-11T03:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2023-11-26T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:23:23","slug":"the-boy-left-in-the-attic-by-kushal-poddar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-boy-left-in-the-attic-by-kushal-poddar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Left In The Attic by Kushal Poddar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10139 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Boy-Left-In-The-Attic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Boy-Left-In-The-Attic.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Boy-Left-In-The-Attic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Boy-Left-In-The-Attic-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Boy-Left-In-The-Attic-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-Boy-Left-In-The-Attic-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/900;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Boy Left In The Attic<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Kushal Poddar<\/p>\n<p>Some nights we don&#8217;t hear<br \/>\nthe boy in the attic, his feet<br \/>\nand his imaginary obstacle race<\/p>\n<p>because we receive the call<br \/>\nfrom our son in the other land<br \/>\nwhere sun&#8217;s already varnished<br \/>\nthe planks and the laths.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we speak too loud<br \/>\nfor a short conversation.<br \/>\nPerhaps the child soul in the attic<br \/>\nis the glee our son he left behind.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Kushal Poddar is the of &#8216;Postmarked Quarantine&#8217; has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of &#8216;Words Surfacing\u2019. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter- <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kushalpoe\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kushalpoe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kushal Poddar is the of &#8216;Postmarked Quarantine&#8217; has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of &#8216;Words Surfacing\u2019. His works <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-poems","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}