{"id":1171,"date":"2014-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-ray-of-light-a-banquet-of-hopes\/"},"modified":"2014-10-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:00:00","slug":"a-ray-of-light-a-banquet-of-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-ray-of-light-a-banquet-of-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ray Of Light, A Banquet Of Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Welcome To Maya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like an angel of our dreams<br \/>\nYou have descended from the heavens,<br \/>\nTo warm our hearts, to illuminate our world &#8211;<br \/>\nOur answered prayers.<\/p>\n<p>You bring with you a ray of light and a bouquet of hopes,<br \/>\nTo give us joy and meaningfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Our relationship goes back to our earlier lives through eternity,<br \/>\nWhere we have bonded invisibly through dew and dust,<br \/>\nAnd now in human form you have come to our world,<br \/>\nAnd lit a candle in our firmament.<\/p>\n<p>We will protect you with the dance of our breaths,<br \/>\nThe perspiration of our brows,<br \/> the light of our souls.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet princess, we cannot measure our love for you,<br \/>\nBut will simply say that you have opened doors to a new life for us,<br \/>\nGarlands for the sweetheart and welcome to our world.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern,<br \/> New York,<br \/> October 10, 2014<br \/>\nwww.kaulscorner.com<br \/>\nmaharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<br \/>\nNote:<br \/>\nThis poem has been written on the birth<br \/>\nof Maya, Jawahar and Anju Chaudhary\u2019s<br \/>\nfirst grandchild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Welcome To Maya Like an angel of our dreams You have descended from the heavens, To warm our hearts, to illuminate our world &#8211; Our answered prayers. You bring&#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-1171","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\/1171","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=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}