{"id":1260,"date":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/arjuns-first-lohri\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","slug":"arjuns-first-lohri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/arjuns-first-lohri\/","title":{"rendered":"Arjun\u2019s First Lohri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dance <em>bhangara <\/em>or <em>gidda <\/em>all night Arjun<\/p>\n<p>For it is your first Lohri,<\/p>\n<p>People have come in extravagant numbers and from far<\/p>\n<p>To keep rhythm with you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether you pray to <em>Surya<\/em> or <em>Agni,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether you eat <em>gur<\/em> or <em>gachak,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now is the moment for you to show us all<\/p>\n<p>Your fire and vigor, your love and <em>masti.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Winter solstice has just started<\/p>\n<p>And hopes for longer and warmer days have taken seed,<\/p>\n<p>We want the giddiness and spirit of summer<\/p>\n<p>To enrapture us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For years we were waiting for you,<\/p>\n<p>Finally God mercifully listened<\/p>\n<p>And gifted you to us &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Our everlasting prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dance on and on around a bonfire<\/p>\n<p>Till the wee hours of the morning,<\/p>\n<p>So people will remember your first Lohri<\/p>\n<p>With mirth and sharp memory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, January 19, 2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaulscorner.com\">www.kaulscorner.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>maharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance bhangara or gidda all night Arjun For it is your first Lohri, People have come in extravagant numbers and from far To keep rhythm with you. &nbsp; Whether you&#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-1260","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\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}