{"id":1280,"date":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/the-rhapsody-of-kashmir-4\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T00:00:00","slug":"the-rhapsody-of-kashmir-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/the-rhapsody-of-kashmir-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhapsody of Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Kashmir \u2013 a dream of the soul,<\/p>\n<p>A rhapsody of eternity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scintillating mosaic of mountains and lakes,<\/p>\n<p>Rivers and trees, flowers and meadows &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A heaven on earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nature\u2019s majesty beckoned man\u2019s imagination<\/p>\n<p>To create a symphony,<\/p>\n<p>A song everlasting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kashmir was not meant to be of the world,<\/p>\n<p>But a place where saints meditated and angels danced.<\/p>\n<p>The refulgences of the beauty and truth<\/p>\n<p>Coalesced to transcend the ways of the world<\/p>\n<p>And barriers of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is where Shaivites and Sufis danced to<\/p>\n<p>The tunes of the invisible drummer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stained and insulted at the moment,<\/p>\n<p>The soul of Kashmir is not dead yet,<\/p>\n<p>It is waiting to rise again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, 2016<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Kashmir \u2013 a dream of the soul, A rhapsody of eternity. &nbsp; Scintillating mosaic of mountains and lakes, Rivers and trees, flowers and meadows &#8211; A heaven on earth. &nbsp;&#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-1280","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\/1280","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=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}