{"id":5036,"date":"2012-09-25T21:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2012-09-25T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:13:48","slug":"a-birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2012\/5036\/","title":{"rendered":"A Birthday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">As I fumble in darkness with fear,<br \/>\n<\/span>a soft graceful hand lifted me up,<br \/>\ncarried through dusk and dawn.<br \/>\nI was floating on wings of a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Soft silky fondle of her love woke me up.<br \/>\nLike in a cradle I hung on her beaks,<br \/>\nnested by bonds of entwined compassion.<\/p>\n<p>She covered me under warmth of her wings,<br \/>\nOften she fed me by food for thoughts.<br \/>\nI could not gulp all she fed me.<br \/>\nBut, unaware I stomached some.<\/p>\n<p>As a worm I was hibernating,<br \/>\nin the termitary of life and death.<br \/>\nBy sharp stare of love she infused life in me.<br \/>\nI woke up from grave of my ego.<br \/>\nShe made my smile incessant.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">On this day of my birth I offer her,<br \/>\n<\/span>a Blue Lotus of my smile at her lotus feet,<br \/>\na birthday gift from depth of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; \u00a0by\u00a0<em>SATHEESAN RANGORATH<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I fumble in darkness with fear, a soft graceful hand lifted me up, carried through dusk and dawn. I was floating on wings of a dream. Soft silky fondle of her love woke me up. Like in a cradle I hung on her beaks, nested by bonds of entwined compassion. She covered me under [&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-5036","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\/5036","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=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}