{"id":1813,"date":"2009-05-31T18:59:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2009-05-31T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:29:06","slug":"good-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/1813\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good in Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staring far into the horizon I stood<br \/>\nWatching the sun retire for the day,<br \/>\nAdieu! The word hath always been heartrending,<br \/>\nTruly! A farewell isn\u2019t painful unless<br \/>\nYou are never going to say hello again!<\/p>\n<p>What is so Good about GoodBye I wonder?<br \/>\nEvery death like farewell and birth like reunion I ponder<br \/>\nBut the day has to go for the night to come<br \/>\nHow else will you applaud the creator<br \/>\nFor the marvel of the moon,\u00a0 the stars and the planets so clear?<\/p>\n<p>Mother says Death and Birth are the same,<br \/>\nFor they are just experiences like any other,<br \/>\nShe simply laid for us, the truth so profound<br \/>\nTreat every moment with love and respect,<br \/>\nBe Optimistic Child for you never know<br \/>\nGrace of Lord shines when we least expect.<\/p>\n<p>I may have stood there all night<br \/>\nAh ! Here is that first\u00a0 streak of sunlight<br \/>\nGood morning says the sun beaming,<br \/>\nI knew you would come, old friend,<br \/>\nFor\u00a0 I&#8217;d seen you lingering at the horizon<br \/>\nTo soothe and comfort my moaning heart.<br \/>\nOften the best things are said at the end<br \/>\nLot of time chatting nothing people spend<br \/>\nThen linger at the door for that special moment<br \/>\nTo say something that rushes from the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Mother this child also awaits your grace,<br \/>\nThe never ending night has taken me into its embrace<br \/>\nExhausted to the core, but not\u00a0 Doomed,<br \/>\nTo bring me a beautiful day full of aspirations<br \/>\nLife! I know it\u2019s a battle between you and me<br \/>\nIf defeated, I would die a brave soldier,<br \/>\nFor I want to hear you acknowledge that<br \/>\nGods child I am , You have met your match !!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Preeti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staring far into the horizon I stood Watching the sun retire for the day, Adieu! The word hath always been heartrending, Truly! A farewell isn\u2019t painful unless You are never going to say hello again! What is so Good about GoodBye I wonder? Every death like farewell and birth like reunion I ponder But the [&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-1813","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\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}