{"id":947160,"date":"2026-07-28T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/?guid=d53cd710ed47de1746c49f474f4babcb"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:06:51","slug":"collateral-damage-a-poem-by-surjit-aribam-the-vortex-of-violence-spins-at-its-sweet-will-swift-one-moment-and-slow-the-next-now-and-then-it-swallows-up-neighbourhoods-and-exhales-smoke-of-burning-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/07\/28\/collateral-damage-a-poem-by-surjit-aribam-the-vortex-of-violence-spins-at-its-sweet-will-swift-one-moment-and-slow-the-next-now-and-then-it-swallows-up-neighbourhoods-and-exhales-smoke-of-burning-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Collateral damage A poem by: Surjit Aribam The vortex of violence spins at its sweet will, Swift one moment and slow the next Now and then, it swallows up neighbourhoods And exhales smoke of burning houses Echoes of painful cries and screams Read full @ https:\/\/shorter.me\/rMtwY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collateral damage<br \/>\nA poem by: Surjit Aribam<\/p>\n<p>The vortex of violence spins at its sweet will,<br \/>\nSwift one moment and slow the next<br \/>\nNow and then, it swallows up neighbourhoods<br \/>\nAnd exhales smoke of burning houses<br \/>\nEchoes of painful cries and screams<\/p>\n<p>Read full @ <a href=\"https:\/\/shorter.me\/rMtwY\">shorter.me\/rMtwY<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/epaomanipur\/status\/2082075307461492911#m\">https:\/\/nitter.net\/epaomanipur\/status\/2082075307461492911#m<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collateral damage<br \/>\nA poem by: Surjit Aribam<\/p>\n<p>The vortex of violence spins at its sweet will,<br \/>\nSwift one moment and slow the next<br \/>\nNow and then, it swallows up neighbourhoods<br \/>\nAnd exhales smoke of burning houses<br \/>\nEchoes of painful cries and screams<\/p>\n<p>Read ful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[331],"class_list":["post-947160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-pao","category-news","tag-e-pao-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947166,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947160\/revisions\/947166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}