{"id":1197,"date":"2016-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/enigma-of-time\/"},"modified":"2016-07-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T00:00:00","slug":"enigma-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/enigma-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Enigma of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to<br \/>\n<strong>Urmila Dhar Zutshi<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>a spark of life, a charge of conviction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nLike some supreme deity time presides<br \/>\nOver human life in special ways,<br \/>\nGiving it form and meaning,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVerve and verisimilitude.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs the ribbon of life uncoils every moment,<br \/>\nTime maintains a record &#8211;<br \/>\nThat is both visible and invisible,<br \/>\nSublime and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe are bit-players on the stage of life,<br \/>\nEach acting out a destined role,<br \/>\nSometimes time is on our side,<br \/>\nBut often it is against.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nTime is a different face of memory,<br \/>\nIt is in partnership with destiny,<br \/>\nWe are at its mercy,<br \/>\nAnd cannot change a whit of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe axis of time beckons us to great deeds,<br \/>\nBut the world pulls us gravitationally down.<br \/>\nBetween the two our destiny<br \/>\nHangs like an acrobat on a trapeze.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern,<br \/> New York,<br \/> July 16, 2016<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kaulscorner.com\">www.kaulscorner.com<\/a><br \/>\nmaharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to Urmila Dhar Zutshi a spark of life, a charge of conviction &nbsp; Like some supreme deity time presides Over human life in special ways, Giving it form and&#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-1197","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\/1197","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=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}