{"id":1262,"date":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-struggling-dream-never-complete\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T00:00:00","slug":"a-struggling-dream-never-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-struggling-dream-never-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"A Struggling Dream Never Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There were opportunities that would have<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lifted my soul out of wear and rut,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Giving me new dimensions,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I squandered in idealism or ignorance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There were dreams that knocked on my soul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That would have lifted it to the stars,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which I ignored out of false fulness,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In narcissistic immodesty. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There were human beings who extended <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Their hands in warm friendship,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That would have created uplifting relationships,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which I rejected in self-centeredness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There were ideas that would have taken me to God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That I laughed at to keep my reason alive,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I believed in nature instead &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The road that is resonant but not transcendent. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All these things if I had <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would not still have made my life easy,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact it would still be the same,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As life is a struggling dream never complete.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suffern, New York, May 17, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kulscorner.com\"><strong>www.kulscorner.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>maharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were opportunities that would have Lifted my soul out of wear and rut, Giving me new dimensions, I squandered in idealism or ignorance. \u00a0 There were dreams that knocked&#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-1262","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\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}