{"id":151003,"date":"2020-01-06T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=151003"},"modified":"2020-01-02T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T09:51:00","slug":"gods-of-good-tidings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/01\/gods-of-good-tidings\/","title":{"rendered":"Gods of Good Tidings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Gods of Good Tidings<br \/>\nWhy create these Weather Rings<br \/>\nRussia basking in a Summer Show<br \/>\nInviting us all to its Warm Glow<br \/>\nIndia back in a Winter Fury<br \/>\nShivering in the Sunless Glory<br \/>\nWhat has happened in Australia<br \/>\nBush Fires can call you Blemishalia<\/p>\n<p>Oh God show us a little Mercy<br \/>\nWithout speaking a little Heresy<br \/>\nSo the world can live and Breathe<br \/>\nHere on the Earth and not Recede<br \/>\nInto the Airless, Lonely cosmic Retreats<br \/>\n______________________________________________<\/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>Oh Gods of Good Tidings<br \/>\nWhy create these Weather Rings<br \/>\nRussia basking in a Summer Show<br \/>\nInviting us all to its Warm Glow<br \/>\nIndia back in a Winter Fury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-151003","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\/151003","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=151003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}