{"id":179200,"date":"2021-02-15T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=179200"},"modified":"2021-02-12T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T08:35:06","slug":"valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Enjoy, have fun this special Day<br \/>\nIt is more special \u2014 it\u2019s a Sunday<br \/>\nGo to expensive Hotels, Getaways<br \/>\nWith your loved one, Offer Gifts<br \/>\nHope that loved one does not become an ex<br \/>\nHope that you also receive some Return Gifts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But what if you don\u2019t have a beloved<br \/>\nWhom do you go out with<br \/>\nWhom do you offer your gift<br \/>\nWho will accept your lift<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have found a way out \u2014 a solution<br \/>\nIn this Day and Age of pollution<br \/>\nLook for a forlorn lonely person<br \/>\nAsk if he\/she will sit with you<br \/>\nWill they have some free time to share with you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They will smile \u2014 they have all the time<br \/>\nOnly thing they don\u2019t have, is a dime<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Go out and listen to their stories<br \/>\nIt will satisfy them more<br \/>\nMore than what you offer<br \/>\nBerries or Pastries<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t worry if they don\u2019t ask your story<br \/>\nOf broken love, longing and misery<br \/>\nYou can always add a few lines to this poetry<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/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>Enjoy, have fun this special Day<br \/>\nIt is more special \u2014 it\u2019s a Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":166069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868,2355],"class_list":["post-179200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry","tag-valentine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179200","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=179200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}