{"id":3133492,"date":"2025-12-01T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/blackout\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:05:24","slug":"blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/sw\/blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\">Nyenzo yangu ya sketi ya kuimba nilipata nafuu<br\/> kama mapazia meusi<br\/> wana hiyo sasa?<\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\"><\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\">Sio kama vita yangu<br\/> vita nilipozaliwa<br\/> katika kumi na tisa arobaini na moja<br\/> walipuaji na mende wa Doodle<\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\"><\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\">Lakini nilikuwa salama<br\/> chini kwenye pishi<br\/> mtoto mdogo tu mikononi.<\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\"><\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\">sikujua<\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\"><\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\">\u201cSalama\u201d Mama alisema<br\/> &#8221;Mpenzi wangu, ulikuwa salama.&#8221;<\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\"><\/span><br\/><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\">Sio kama wao sasa<br\/> Je, mapazia yaliyozimishwa yana manufaa kwao?<br\/> akina mama huko Ukraine<br\/> watoto wachanga mikononi &#8211;<br\/> ni sehemu gani hiyo uliyosema?<br\/> jina hilo la kuchekesha kama nyota<br\/> Ah<br\/> Acha nilale sasa<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyenzo yangu ya sketi ya kuimba nilipata kwa bei nafuu \/ kama mapazia meusi \/ je wana hiyo sasa?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5090,"featured_media":3133313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9933],"tags":[],"fpb_issue_category":[25275],"class_list":["post-3133492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ushairi","fpb_issue_category-je-tunaamini-nini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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