{"id":4333,"date":"2011-09-28T21:28:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2011-09-28T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:58:46","slug":"a-simple-rhyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2011\/4333\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple rhyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O! Ma, what a vainglorious was I that I thought of only \u201cI, I and I\u201d,<br \/>\nVerily the vanity that got washed away when I looked at Thy Eye.<\/p>\n<p>O! Ma, what a dismal child was I that I could dream only terror,<br \/>\nVerily the despondency vanished away with Thy smile so milder.<\/p>\n<p>O! Ma, what a tottering child was I that I could only fall and tremble,<br \/>\nVerily the weakness that\u2019s gone when I sauntered with Thee, an amble.<\/p>\n<p>O! Ma, what a stuttering child was I that I could only mutter \u201cUm, aa, ee \u2026\u201d<br \/>\nVerily, now Thy child sings, rendering a million raagas with the melody.<\/p>\n<p>O! Ma, what a faltering liar was I that I could never know \u201cGod exists,\u201d<br \/>\nVerily Thy Love and Presence heals the wound, now I know \u201cGod is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wish you a very happy birthday O! AMMA.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Sridhar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O! Ma, what a vainglorious was I that I thought of only \u201cI, I and I\u201d, Verily the vanity that got washed away when I looked at Thy Eye. O! Ma, what a dismal child was I that I could dream only terror, Verily the despondency vanished away with Thy smile so milder. O! Ma, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-4333","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\/4333","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}