{"id":271,"date":"2006-06-06T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/06\/mumbai-street-kids-fall-prey-to-drugs\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T09:57:28","slug":"mumbai-street-kids-fall-prey-to-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/06\/mumbai-street-kids-fall-prey-to-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai street kids fall prey to drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of street <strong>kids <\/strong>in <strong>Mumbai <\/strong>are heavily into dope, by <strong>chasing, snorting, smoking and injecting<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Many of these children stay <strong>doped <\/strong>through the day to hide from the daily run of the city. They have been <strong>addicts for years, and some started as early as at the age of eight. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/images\/topstories\/Drugaddict.jpg\" alt=\"Mumbai Kids Prey to Drugs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I take charas, inject myself, and smell the toner solution,&#8221; <\/strong>an addict said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I get a high after taking drugs. I do all sorts of drugs including &#8216;chasing&#8217;. I then feel I am in heaven,&#8221; <\/strong>said another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/morenews\/showmorestory.asp?category=National&#038;slug=Mumbai+street+kids+fall+prey+to+drugs&#038;id=88758#\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of street kids in Mumbai are heavily into dope, by chasing, snorting, smoking and injecting. Many of these children stay doped through the day to hide from the daily run of the city. They have been addicts for years, and some started as early as at the age of eight. &#8220;I take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}