{"id":951,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/childhood\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not break the mirror that reflects the childhood,<br \/>The unadulterated nature, the footprint of life.<\/p>\n<p>Keep childhood alive in the fossilized past,<br \/>An island of experience,<br \/>To be shielded from new experience,<br \/>To remain a reference for living.<\/p>\n<p>In childhood mind and nature interact in the purest form,<br \/>Life is an unvarnished experience,<br \/>Unmeditated, unburdened by the past.<\/p>\n<p>A child does not lie, but the civilization is studded with grand lies,<br \/>It is the child in us we belittle,<br \/>Who haunts in our endless searchings.<\/p>\n<p>The happy highs of childhood and its unalloyed pains,<br \/>Its transparent wonders and conflict-less being,<br \/>Unpolluted by doubts, unfettered by ego.<\/p>\n<p>When we grow up, we know more,<br \/>But we lose the inner poetry,<br \/>Which is sacrificed for the twinkling illusions of ego and power.<\/p>\n<p>Childhood is a peephole on our nature,<br \/>A slice of pristine formative experience,<br \/>Incomparable, unreasoned,<br \/>A mirror we can not afford to break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not break the mirror that reflects the childhood,The unadulterated nature, the footprint of life. Keep childhood alive in the fossilized past,An island of experience,To be shielded from new experience,To&#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-951","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\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}