{"id":1669,"date":"2009-04-28T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T07:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2009-04-28T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T10:54:16","slug":"second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/1669\/","title":{"rendered":"A second chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life takes its due course with time<br \/>\nPeople come and go, an inevitable change<br \/>\nYet whenever i turn back or look ahead,<br \/>\nAt times I fail to see you<br \/>\nThrough all the struggles I&#8217;ve gone through,<br \/>\nYou were always there and still are, right beside me<br \/>\nGuiding me to the right direction<\/p>\n<p>When i lost faith in myself and any hope for the future<br \/>\nI chanted your name, a reason worth living<br \/>\nThere have been several times when I escaped everything around me<br \/>\nAnd felt your warmth reassuring me<\/p>\n<p>The world have always labelled me, pushed me<br \/>\nYet you have only embraced me,<br \/>\nFor a moment i forgot all the pain, experiencing bliss.<br \/>\nWhen i felt i couldn&#8217;t go on, scared and alone<br \/>\nI could feel your presence, you have always been there .<\/p>\n<p>At every juncture you have shown me the way,<br \/>\nI can only give my life in your service<br \/>\nYour have given me boundless strength<br \/>\nTo do whats right<\/p>\n<p>Mother you have given me a second chance<br \/>\nMy life is at your service.<\/p>\n<p>-Rajlakshmi Kanjilal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life takes its due course with time People come and go, an inevitable change Yet whenever i turn back or look ahead, At times I fail to see you Through all the struggles I&#8217;ve gone through, You were always there and still are, right beside me Guiding me to the right direction When i lost [&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-1669","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\/1669","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=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}