{"id":206638,"date":"2022-04-18T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=206638"},"modified":"2022-04-17T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T10:06:01","slug":"sounds-soft-and-aloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/04\/sounds-soft-and-aloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds \u2014 Soft and Aloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tell me my Dear<br \/>\nWhat sounds do you hear<\/p>\n<p>If you are in a room<br \/>\nDo you hear a loud boom<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the fresh air<br \/>\nDoes the sound go everywhere<\/p>\n<p>If you are in a bazaar<br \/>\nDoes the sound go near and far<\/p>\n<p>Tell me what makes the sound loud<br \/>\nSo that we can hear it aloud<\/p>\n<p>What is the sound, who is making it?<br \/>\n\u2018It is my old shoe, no money to change it\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Here take my new shoe and give me your old one<br \/>\nI will draw attention and become an important man<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/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> 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>Tell me my Dear<br \/>\nWhat sounds do you hear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":166069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-206638","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\/206638","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=206638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206638\/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=206638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}