{"id":21014,"date":"2019-02-25T11:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21014"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:53:56","slug":"when-the-lotus-bloomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21014","title":{"rendered":"when the lotus bloomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so distracted, tense, and busy<br \/>\nThat I missed the lotus bloom.<br \/>\nThough preoccupied and hasty<br \/>\nI sensed something in the room\u2014<br \/>\nCaught that subtle scent of longing,<br \/>\nThat mute yearning to be still\u2014<br \/>\nBut I hadn\u2019t yet an inkling<br \/>\nThat the flower was my will.<\/p>\n<p>(Answering Rabindranath Tagore, <em>Gitanjali<\/em> #20, \u201cOn the Day When the Lotus Bloomed,\u201d which begins\u2014in Tagore\u2019s own English translation\u2014\u201cOn the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying, and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the flower remained unheeded.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so distracted, tense, and busy That I missed the lotus bloom. Though preoccupied and hasty I sensed something in the room\u2014 Caught that subtle scent of longing, That mute yearning to be still\u2014 But I hadn\u2019t yet an inkling That the flower was my will. (Answering Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali #20, \u201cOn the Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21018,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions\/21018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}