{"id":93253,"date":"2019-02-11T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=93253"},"modified":"2019-02-11T08:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:53:03","slug":"my-father-at-one-time-would-beat-my-mother-in-front-of-us-arrow-reveals-growing-up-in-a-violent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/my-father-at-one-time-would-beat-my-mother-in-front-of-us-arrow-reveals-growing-up-in-a-violent-home\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My father at one time would beat my mother in front of us&#8221; Arrow reveals growing up in a violent home\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Arrowboy has revealed that he grew up in a polygamous family that saw his dad fight with his mother a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Radio Jambo, the singer revealed that his father, who had 12 kids, was a frustrated man and usually attacked his mother to vent out his anger.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBeing the last born in a family of 12 siblings and a polygamous family, my father at one time would beat my mother in front of us.\u00a0My father was frustrated with life because he did not have enough money to feed us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Forgiveness<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/Arrow-Boy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/Arrow-Boy.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/08\/Arrow-Boy-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Comedian YY also said that he grew up in a similar setting. His late father used to be violent and always attacked his mum while they were kids. Like YY, Arrowboy said that he forgave his father.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI already forgave my father. We are now good and sometimes we talk, and I still respect him as my dad.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Arrowboy has revealed that he grew up in a polygamous family that saw his dad fight with his mother a lot. Speaking in an interview on Radio Jambo, the singer revealed that his father, who had 12 kids, was a frustrated man and usually attacked his mother to vent out his anger. \u201cBeing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6017,"featured_media":93254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95280,95281,59022],"class_list":["post-93253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arrow-boy","tag-arrowboy","tag-kenyan-singers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93255,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93253\/revisions\/93255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}