{"id":1021,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-cup-of-tea\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"a-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-cup-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cup Of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cup of tea is a balm to the stressed life,<br \/>A replenishment of energy,<br \/>A change of mood.<\/p>\n<p>What is the miracle in the marriage<br \/>Of tea leaves and hot water?<br \/>We only know that a splendidly tasting and aromatic<br \/>Mood-transforming brew emanates.<\/p>\n<p>Civilization is woven in cups of tea.<br \/>Every effort, however ambitious,<br \/>Ends in tiredness and some disenchantment:<br \/>A cup of tea restores us to our primal vigor.<\/p>\n<p>A cup of tea does not give a crashing euphoria<br \/>Or a seductive drunkenness<br \/>But stimulates a soothing state:<br \/>Palpable tranquility, sensuous serenity.<br \/>In a tea cup you see a different universe.<\/p>\n<p>We have to squeeze a tea-break from<br \/>The clutches of high-stress life we live in,<br \/>We have to defeat the forces of our culture temporarily,<br \/>To create a moment for ourselves,<br \/>To continue our dream.<\/p>\n<p>A cup of tea opens a door to another realm,<br \/>More settled than ours, more hopeful, more inspiring,<br \/>Where there are no rewards and no punishments.<\/p>\n<p>Where a journey is more important than its destination,<br \/>A commitment is more significant than its culmination,<br \/>Success is less important than the resolve to achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>A cup of tea is a joy forever,<br \/>A float in tempest-tossed existence,<br \/>A window on another world.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, N.Y. 12.8.09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cup of tea is a balm to the stressed life,A replenishment of energy,A change of mood. What is the miracle in the marriageOf tea leaves and hot water?We only&#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-1021","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\/1021","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=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}