{"id":1117,"date":"2012-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/kashmirs-soul-under-pressure\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"kashmirs-soul-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/kashmirs-soul-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir\u2019s Soul Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! Kashmir your face is stained, your brow knitted,<br \/>There is a sigh in your voice, a hesitation in your step.<br \/>For eons you have been in this part of the world:<br \/>Paragon of beauty, icon of grace.<br \/>Now a defiled flower, a week shadow of gods.<br \/>Who has grizzled you with wounds, who has twisted your grace?<br \/>Enemies within have conspired to trade your soul in a bloody sport:<br \/>In a show of power, burst of passion,<br \/>Revenge of the ego:<br \/>A misconceived utopia, a blind dream.<br \/>Let me caress your brow, wash your wounds,<br \/>Let me dress you in love,<br \/>To reignite the old flame in you :<br \/>One day you will be reborn<br \/>And light the world around you again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, November 20, 2011 www.kaulscorner.com maharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! Kashmir your face is stained, your brow knitted,There is a sigh in your voice, a hesitation in your step.For eons you have been in this part of the world:Paragon&#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-1117","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\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}