{"id":1008,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-leaf-falls\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"a-leaf-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-leaf-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leaf Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up on the top of a fall colors decked tree a solitary leaf holds itself in serene majesty.<br \/>The riotous colors dressing the entire maple tree are shocking and seductive.<br \/>Little did the tree know in spring and summer one day it will be raided by an army of colors,<br \/>Transported to another realm and stunned into an exotic appearance.<br \/>Does it know that its symphonic gaiety will soon be over and it will go through<br \/>The ignominy of nudity for several month long winter interlude?<\/p>\n<p>Fall is the consummate of all seasons as it mirrors the human personality.<br \/>It has the flaming splendor, tantalizing exuberance, and gay abandon;<br \/>But it also has the sadness and stillness, shyness and reclusiveness of a human being.<br \/>Behind its robust grandeur lie the fault lines of the impending doom of the approaching winter.<br \/>Fall is an irony written in a climate, a verse of nature enigmatic and still eloquent.<br \/>Spring announces itself with a shriek, summer a loud mirth, but fall is a melancholy wrapped in celebration.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning was God, who later gave birth to nature &#8211;<br \/>Before man came and before his intellect evolved.<br \/>For millions of years the mystery and power of nature awed man<br \/>But as science emerged nature receded from his mind.<br \/>Today it is just a mystic, grey background to man\u2019s existence:<br \/>Ununderstandable, un-connectable, inhuman.<\/p>\n<p>Fall or spring, summer or winter, each has unique spirit and style, beauty and charm.<br \/>Nature\u2019s seasons are the backdrop to human existence: inalienable and indispensable.<br \/>Without the colossal majesty of nature around us we would not be what we are.<br \/>It is the nature we deny in us that haunts us in endless ways.<br \/>Technology has helped humanity greatly but it has no humanity in it.<br \/>The leaf at the top of the hallowed tree falls to ground but no one cares to look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up on the top of a fall colors decked tree a solitary leaf holds itself in serene majesty.The riotous colors dressing the entire maple tree are shocking and seductive.Little did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poems"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}