{"id":1048,"date":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/two-marigolds-for-cathy\/"},"modified":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"two-marigolds-for-cathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/two-marigolds-for-cathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Marigolds For Cathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have calmed myself and put on clean clothes to visit Cathy \u2013<br \/>\nA monthly pilgrimage I take with equal measure of passion and pain, joy and hesitation,<br \/>\nCathy lives in Tulip Hills, a verdant stretch of wild flowers covering a poignant hill,<br \/>\nMy two hours journey there is filled with the nostalgia of a loved life lived life with Cathy.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy lived by passion for life, studded artistically with love for humanity and natural beauty,<br \/>\nFor her life was an exercise of the heart \u2013 not impulsive or emotional,<br \/>\nBut a grand theater of ideals, humanity, courage, wonder, and adventure,<br \/>\nShe believed that God had created only one chance for us to live<br \/>\nAnd to waste it in inaction, hording, hating, was the greatest crime.<br \/>\nI found painfully that her vision was the distillation of the wisdom of the ages,<br \/>\nHer originality was ingrained in her cells and did not come from a thought process,<br \/>\nShe succeeded a lot, she failed a lot; she loved a lot, she lost a lot; she laughed a lot, she forgave a lot;<br \/>\nBut never was there a moment when she was not alive,<br \/>\nShe laughed at the conventions of the world, its stifling culture, its moronic materialism.<br \/>\nShe was a visionary maverick if there was one,<\/p>\n<p>My Aunt Cathy\u2019s spark is frozen forever in the folds of time,<br \/>\nAt her place I spend an hour or two meditating on her spirit<br \/>\nAnd end my visit by laying two marigolds on her grave.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, 9.14.10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have calmed myself and put on clean clothes to visit Cathy \u2013 A monthly pilgrimage I take with equal measure of passion and pain, joy and hesitation, Cathy lives&#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-1048","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\/1048","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=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}