{"id":1143,"date":"2013-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/before-i-reach-the-other-shore\/"},"modified":"2013-06-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:00:00","slug":"before-i-reach-the-other-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/before-i-reach-the-other-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I Reach The Other Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sail boat is small but the ocean is large.<br \/>\nJourney has been turbulent and goalless,<br \/>\nThe purpose of the odyssey is unknown.<br \/>\nLife is a chaos beckoning a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Mother fed me on life\u2019s potentials.<br \/>\nIt appeared an orderly enterprise,<br \/>\nWhere input determined output.<br \/>\nAnd the grandeur of life was un-diminishable.<\/p>\n<p>Visionaries missed to see<br \/>\nThat there was a cocoon called world,<br \/>\nBuilt by man to protect him,<br \/>\nBut which ends in imprisoning and degrading him.<br \/>\nMan proposes but world disposes.<\/p>\n<p>A man yearns to go to the other shore \u2013<br \/>\nTo make the world irrelevant to him,<br \/>\nEven though the journey is studded with heartbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>But before I reach the other shore,<br \/>\nI want to give back to life equivalent of joy<br \/>\nThat I have taken from it.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, <br \/>New York,<br \/> Sept. 25, 2014<br \/>\nwww.kaulscorner.com<br \/>\nmaharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<br \/>\nNote: This is a revision of the poem by the same title<br \/>\nthat was published on June 16, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sail boat is small but the ocean is large. Journey has been turbulent and goalless, The purpose of the odyssey is unknown. Life is a chaos beckoning a dream&#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-1143","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\/1143","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=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}