{"id":215881,"date":"2022-08-01T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=215881"},"modified":"2022-06-29T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T04:00:07","slug":"medicine-man-or-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/medicine-man-or-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Man or Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a person is ill, he takes medicines (meds)<br \/>\nEven when he is not ill, he keeps these meds near<br \/>\nSo he can consume the meds if he falls ill, is his fear<br \/>\nIf he is not ill, he wonders why he should store them<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t he realise that there are millions of poor without meds<br \/>\nIs it too much effort to give these for the hospital beds<br \/>\nPerhaps it is, with too many forms to be filled and red tape<br \/>\nSo he keeps piling them, leaving his cupboard in poor shape<\/p>\n<p>His family warns him about this excess<br \/>\nOh,\u00a0\u00a0you may need them when in distress<br \/>\nNow another argument for him to justify himself<br \/>\nShift arguments on his family who find them too complex<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the neighbourhood knows this medicine Man<br \/>\nCompliments and praises this thoughtful Superman<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> 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>When a person is ill, he takes medicines (meds)<br \/>\nEven when he is not ill, he keeps these meds near<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-215881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215881","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=215881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215881\/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=215881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}