{"id":1036,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/do-not-open-the-doors-to-my-childhood\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"do-not-open-the-doors-to-my-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/do-not-open-the-doors-to-my-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Open The Doors To My Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are they urging me to open the doors of my childhood,<br \/>\nWhich I had shut stiff a long time ago &#8211;<br \/>\nTo keep away my still smoldering pains,<br \/>\nTo tamp down my recurrently reborn anguished hopes?<\/p>\n<p>I do not want to see my grandfather\u2019s cane<br \/>\nKeeping step with me in our jaunts in Shimla bazaars;<br \/>\nNor his care-worn face gleaming with joy on seeing me;<br \/>\nI do not want to hear my aunt\u2019s carefully calibrated voice<br \/>\nNarrating a romantic folk tale in a series of evening sittings;<br \/>\nNeither do I want to feel tormented at the separation with my cousin.<\/p>\n<p>My childhood is a life apart \u2013<br \/>\nA sealed capsule of pristine time,<br \/>\nAn island in the stream of my variegated experience.<br \/>\nIts joys are the rapturous blossoms of my existence,<br \/>\nIts wounds the unrelenting spurs of my catharsis.<\/p>\n<p>If I could have done it,<br \/>\nI would have liked to die in my childhood \u2013<br \/>\nTo foreclose the ignominy of my later years.<br \/>\nA beautiful blossom of God<br \/>\nMust get defiled through its journey in the world<br \/>\nBefore it returns to its sublime eternity.<\/p>\n<p>I want that life to remain sealed<br \/>\nTill I am safely out of this world,<br \/>\nAnd take it with me to the other world where there is no hurt,<br \/>\nAnd open its doors there to my joy and happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are they urging me to open the doors of my childhood, Which I had shut stiff a long time ago &#8211; To keep away my still smoldering pains, To&#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-1036","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\/1036","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=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}