{"id":3116936,"date":"2025-06-01T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/kijana-wa-dandelion\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:03:45","slug":"kijana-wa-dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/sw\/kijana-wa-dandelion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kijana wa Dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ziara ya historia inaisha<br\/> katika makaburi yaliyojaa mawe ya kichwa,<br\/> dandelions, na wanafunzi wa darasa la nne wakicheza.<br\/> Mvulana mdogo anamkimbilia mwalimu wake,<br\/> dandelion ya muda mrefu mkononi.<br\/> Kuangalia usoni mwake,<br\/> anatoa zawadi yake kimyakimya.<br\/> Aliogopa, bila kujali, anasema,<br\/> &#8221;Hiyo ni magugu!&#8221; na simu<br\/> darasa kukusanyika wenyewe.<br\/> Mvulana anaanza kukauka<br\/> mpaka Rafiki wa karibu atapiga simu,<br\/> &#8221;Ninapenda dandelions!<br\/> Unaweza kunichagulia moja?\u201d<br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ziara ya historia inaisha \/ kwenye kaburi lililojaa mawe ya kichwa,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5090,"featured_media":3098821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9933],"tags":[],"fpb_issue_category":[9911],"class_list":["post-3116936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ushairi","fpb_issue_category-uamsho-wa-tetemeko-la-ardhi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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