{"id":170089,"date":"2020-10-12T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=170089"},"modified":"2020-10-07T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T08:52:18","slug":"our-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/10\/our-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met a person after many a day<br \/>\nSeeing me he wished me Good Day<\/p>\n<p>Where were you all this while?<br \/>\nHe replied,<br \/>\nI was very near, not even a mile<br \/>\nMaybe you were too occupied<\/p>\n<p>Very near my home<br \/>\nI failed to understand<\/p>\n<p>I was in the waters, in the air<br \/>\nIn the flowers, in the soil\u2019s layer<\/p>\n<p>I still could not comprehend<br \/>\nWho are you, what is your intent?<\/p>\n<p>I have no bad intent<br \/>\nIf I had one,<br \/>\nI would not be your friend<\/p>\n<p>I fell silent<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I am Oxygen<br \/>\nI keep waters and air clean<br \/>\nI let the fish to swim and survive<br \/>\nI let the flowers to breathe<br \/>\nI am a friend of everyone<br \/>\nNot a bad person for anyone<\/p>\n<p>Hurry, make a friend of this guy<br \/>\nBefore he wishes you good bye<br \/>\n______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ravi-P.-Bhatia-150x150-1-e1596524021103.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ravi-P.-Bhatia-150x150-1-e1596524021103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><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>Met a person after many a day<br \/>\nSeeing me he wished me Good Day<\/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-170089","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\/170089","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=170089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170089\/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=170089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}