{"id":227676,"date":"2023-02-06T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=227676"},"modified":"2023-02-04T04:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:47:58","slug":"a-birthday-thank-you-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/02\/a-birthday-thank-you-note\/","title":{"rendered":"A Birthday Thank You Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To TMS editor Antonio C.S. Rosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Antonio, thinking of your Birthday on 8 Feb and your friendship, I came up with the following poem.<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hello hello my dear friend<br \/>\nYour amity shows no end<br \/>\nYou bring news that makes one smile<br \/>\nOne doesn\u2019t need to travel a mile<\/p>\n<p>Any return gift you offer the friend<br \/>\nGift no, only a thank you note<br \/>\nA note or a thankful smile<br \/>\nThat stays in memory a long while<\/p>\n<p>So my friend learn to be generous<br \/>\nAnd you will also look gorgeous<br \/>\nWith the smile on your face<br \/>\nAnd a thank you note that is copious<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>To TMS editor Antonio C.S. Rosa &#8211; Dear Antonio, thinking of your Birthday on 8 Feb and your friendship, I came up with the following poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":223590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[808,2952,868,945],"class_list":["post-227676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-antonio-c-s-rosa","tag-birthdays","tag-poetry","tag-transcend-media-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227676","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=227676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}