{"id":1083,"date":"2008-12-09T21:12:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2008-12-09T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T15:42:44","slug":"seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/1083\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Your Hands to Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O mother, when I took my first steps,<br \/>\nYou were there.<br \/>\nWhen I started laughing merrily at every site,<br \/>\nYou joined with me.<br \/>\nWhen I created a world of my own,<br \/>\nYou watched me silently.<br \/>\nStill, in every steps of mine<br \/>\nYou walked with me.<br \/>\nWhen I went through sufferings,<br \/>\nYou showered your love on me<br \/>\nWhen I struggled to find a reason,<br \/>\nYou taught me to blame on myself.<br \/>\nIn my each and every sufferings,<br \/>\nYou showed me the pain of others,<br \/>\nWhen tears rolled down my cheeks,<br \/>\nYou whispered into my ears &#8220;You are mine&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You taught me to be brave,<br \/>\nYou taught me to relax not to react,<br \/>\nYou taught me to forgive not to point at.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this despondent child of Yours,<br \/>\nStruggling in darkness to find a way back,<br \/>\nSeeking Your hands to hold \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Your child begs you to forgive,<br \/>\nYour child begs you to take her with you,<br \/>\nIt seeks a place in your lap to be at peace\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Nimmy K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O mother, when I took my first steps, You were there. When I started laughing merrily at every site, You joined with me. When I created a world of my own, You watched me silently. Still, in every steps of mine You walked with me. When I went through sufferings, You showered your love on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}