{"id":787,"date":"2022-03-20T18:05:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/?p=787"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:55:42","slug":"in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/2022\/03\/20\/in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Park\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day was Friday. Airah and Aleeza went to the park with their father to spend the sunny afternoon playing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking at their identical curly hair, anyone could tell they were sisters. Aleeza, being older by a couple of years, was a tad taller than Airah.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in having fun, Airah was above everyone else. She knew how to gain all the attention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the park, she immediately started playing with her father. Running from him to make him chase. Crawling through his legs and trying to climb to his shoulders. Giggling all the way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aleeza was quiet. She couldn\u2019t do what Airah could, but she wanted to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, she began copying everything Airah did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But she was not enjoying it, having to forcefully be like her sister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She felt awkward. She laughed, too, but it wasn’t real laughter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aleeza retired, and sat down, sad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The father saw it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He went up to Aleeza, and sat next to her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, my daughter. You are special,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou do not have to be like someone else. You can play and have fun the way you like. You will still have all my attention.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aleeza smiled. She knew her father was right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He helped Aleeza get up, and called Airah, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet us play a game we all could enjoy,\u201d he said, and the girls got excited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He, first, showed them how to play hide and seek. Next, they played with a ball. And the girls just ran around afterward until they felt exhausted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShall we leave now?\u201d asked the father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cHow about we have ice cream before we head home,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The girls shouted in excitement, fetching a smile from their father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He held their hands, one on each side, as they walked out of the park.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The day was Friday. Airah and Aleeza went to the park with their father to spend the sunny afternoon playing.\u00a0 Looking at their identical curly hair, anyone could tell they were sisters. Aleeza, being older by a couple of years, was a tad taller than Airah. But in having fun, Airah was above everyone else.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,291,294,290,12,11,293,292],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-fairytales","tag-father","tag-friday","tag-girls","tag-inspiring-tales","tag-kashmir","tag-park","tag-shy","enable-dropcap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}