{"id":151659,"date":"2020-01-20T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=151659"},"modified":"2020-01-14T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:29:42","slug":"new-pair-of-jeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/01\/new-pair-of-jeans\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pair of Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a new pair of jeans<br \/>\nWith her hard earned means<br \/>\nThe teenager Tanu put them on<br \/>\nFor her friends to like her taste<br \/>\nThe friend told her not to waste<br \/>\nMoney on buying such costly things<br \/>\nWhat should I do my friends<br \/>\nShould I return them to the store<br \/>\nNo, only make a cut here,<br \/>\nA scratch there.<\/p>\n<p>Let not people say<br \/>\nYou are too rich and proud<br \/>\nAnd have no concern for the crowd<br \/>\nOf the poor people where you stay<br \/>\nHave a little heart for them<br \/>\nPut on a few scratches for them<br \/>\nThis is democracy you see<br \/>\nThe poor will also agree<br \/>\nThat Tanu cares for us<br \/>\nAnd dresses like us<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>Buying a new pair of jeans<br \/>\nWith her hard earned means<br \/>\nThe teenager Tanu put them on<br \/>\nFor her friends to like her taste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-151659","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\/151659","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=151659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}