{"id":1243,"date":"2017-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/if-i-could-have-done-it\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:00:00","slug":"if-i-could-have-done-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/if-i-could-have-done-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Could Have Done It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were gardens that could have been made more beautiful,<\/p>\n<p>There were tears that could have been stopped,<\/p>\n<p>There were causes that could have been backed &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>But I was under the gravity of a vision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I sought perfection in the chaos of life,<\/p>\n<p>Pursued ideas losing the primal pulse of actions,<\/p>\n<p>I dreamt of things that were not,<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the naked albatross of reality around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not that I did not care,<\/p>\n<p>It is because I chose a few among the possibilities,<\/p>\n<p>I focused on the grandeurs of life,<\/p>\n<p>Removed from everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Call me not insensitive or crude<\/p>\n<p>That I aspired for diamonds from the rubble,<\/p>\n<p>Serene solitude from the tumult of the world,<\/p>\n<p>Eternity from the melting strands of human time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, August 3, 2017<\/p>\n<p>www;kaulscorner.com<\/p>\n<p>maharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 There were gardens that could have been made more beautiful, There were tears that could have been stopped, There were causes that could have been backed &#8211; But&#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-1243","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\/1243","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=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}