{"id":189496,"date":"2021-09-13T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=189496"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T08:11:52","slug":"running-damsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/09\/running-damsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Damsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw her running many a time<br \/>\nNot very fast not too slow<br \/>\nWondered whom she was running away from<br \/>\nOr whom she was running towards<br \/>\nHer Guru, her boyfriend or both<br \/>\nOr her Doctor advised her to run<br \/>\nKeep running, you will be fit as a Nun<\/p>\n<p>Once she was running slowly<br \/>\nAnd I tried to question her a little<br \/>\nBut she cared not for me<br \/>\nWithout a sorry, without a smile<br \/>\nShe kept on her routine<br \/>\nPerhaps she was running a slow mile<\/p>\n<p>In cycling there is a slow cycle race<br \/>\nSometimes being slow helps a person to win<br \/>\nWinning is what we all want to do<br \/>\nWe all know\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>Slow and steady wins the race\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some people are walking, working slowly<br \/>\nWishing that they will also age slowly<br \/>\nBut age does not bother about the pace<br \/>\nOr speed, it works at its own pace<br \/>\nAnd before one knows, somebody has taken their place<br \/>\nWith people sending messages\u00a0<em>Rest in Peace<\/em><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>I saw her running many a time<br \/>\nNot very fast not too slow<br \/>\nWondered whom she was running away from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-189496","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\/189496","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=189496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189496\/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=189496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}