{"id":1239,"date":"2017-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/rape-of-innocence\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T00:00:00","slug":"rape-of-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/rape-of-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape of Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shiny vortex of the world<\/p>\n<p>Has captured me without a let &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A rape of innocence &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A chimera challenging my soul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Man descended from angels<\/p>\n<p>With a transcendent purity,<\/p>\n<p>But the wheels of world turned it<\/p>\n<p>Into a bargaining being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We shrivel and shriek in our pains,<\/p>\n<p>Our souls turned into sieves,<\/p>\n<p>While the grand journey haunts us in our dreams,<\/p>\n<p>Our origins cloud into a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If we could change the world,<\/p>\n<p>We could save man,<\/p>\n<p>If we followed our light,<\/p>\n<p>Our breaths would become a delight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bridges have been burnt to the other shore,<\/p>\n<p>But I have to cross anyway,<\/p>\n<p>The waters are rough,<\/p>\n<p>But my spirit is tough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, September 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaulscorner.com\">www.kaulscorner.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>maharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shiny vortex of the world Has captured me without a let &#8211; A rape of innocence &#8211; A chimera challenging my soul. &nbsp; Man descended from angels With a&#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-1239","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\/1239","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=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}