{"id":150843,"date":"2019-12-30T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=150843"},"modified":"2019-12-30T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:01:47","slug":"new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/12\/new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this cold day in the North<br \/>\nAnd warm days in the South<br \/>\nWe celebrated the day of joy and mirth<br \/>\nWhat day was it Christmas &#8212; when the basket of joy was lit<br \/>\nWith the New Year knocking at our door<br \/>\nKeep the door shut<br \/>\nKeep the cold out of the poor man&#8217;s hut<br \/>\nThe festival for the poor and the rich<br \/>\nThere should be no hitch<br \/>\nFor the season to remain<br \/>\nA day of truth and gain<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ravi-P-Bhatia-e1471532294478.jpe\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ravi-P-Bhatia-e1471532294478.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an<\/em> <em>educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental <em>was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> <em><a href=\"ravipbhatia@gmail.com\">ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this cold day in the North<br \/>\nAnd warm days in the South<br \/>\nWe celebrated the day of joy and mirth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-150843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}