{"id":172561,"date":"2020-11-16T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=172561"},"modified":"2020-11-11T03:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:38:53","slug":"keep-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/keep-crying\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Crying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is crying good for people, we wonder<br \/>\nA child soon after its birth utters a cry<br \/>\nIf he doesn\u2019t he gets a nudge to make him cry<\/p>\n<p>A small girl begins weeping if she can\u2019t find her doll<br \/>\nA weeping boy starts smiling after his car begins to roll<\/p>\n<p>Friends know what is true friendship<br \/>\nOne can\u2019t be unworthy of this relationship<\/p>\n<p>In many Asian countries<br \/>\nA bride has tears leaving her family<br \/>\nThe bridegroom walks happily<br \/>\nBut wonders how his wife will put up with him<br \/>\nWill she stay with him or soon desert him<\/p>\n<p>Wars result in violence destruction as staple outcomes<br \/>\nBut families weep when forced to leave their homes<\/p>\n<p>A scientist jumps with joy when her theory is proved true<br \/>\nDoes she hide her tears when it is proved to be untrue<\/p>\n<p>Laughter and tears have no language<br \/>\nPeople world over know what they mean<br \/>\nLaugh laugh laugh away your tears<br \/>\nTears help you keep your eyes clean<br \/>\n______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><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><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>Is crying good for people, we wonder<br \/>\nA child soon after its birth utters a cry<br \/>\nIf he doesn\u2019t he gets a nudge to make him cry<\/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-172561","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\/172561","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=172561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172561\/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=172561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}