{"id":1590,"date":"2006-10-04T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T15:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2007-07-18T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T14:59:42","slug":"watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/watermelon.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>By Urmila devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bottle of juice it says in the store<br \/>\nBut really, store clerk, we don\u2019t want anymore.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just water and sugar, colored flavor, not nice<br \/>\nA chemical drink that one pours over ice.<br \/>\nIn colors fantastic\u2014bright red and lime green<br \/>\nJuice it is not, though at first it might seem<br \/>\nReal to those captured in maya\u2019s strong dream<\/p>\n<p>But, here! Here\u2019s the juice packed by Krishna so sweet.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s water and red with some flavor, complete<br \/>\nTo satisfy us from the heat of the day,<br \/>\nTo drive both our hunger and thirst far away.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s messy and sticky but artistry\u2019s there<br \/>\nThe flavor the Lord puts in melon or pear<br \/>\nWe give back to Him and yet pleasure\u2019s still there.<\/p>\n<p>How can they deny You, all merciful Lord?<br \/>\nWith chemical juice they must surely get bored.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s sweet and it\u2019s sticky but can\u2019t satisfy<br \/>\nThe body or soul with this flimsy try<br \/>\nOf crude imitation, apologies none.<br \/>\nWhile the Lord makes such melon we truly have fun!<br \/>\nIt\u2019s Him I\u2019ll keep center\u2014the only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wateswrmelon.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Urmila Devi Dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Bottle of juice it says in the store<br \/>\nBut really, store clerk, we don\u2019t want anymore.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just water and sugar, colored flavor, not nice<br \/>\nA chemical drink that one pours over ice.<br \/>\nIn colors fantastic\u2014bright red and lime green<br \/>\nJuice it is not, though at first it might seem<br \/>\nReal to those captured in maya\u2019s strong dream<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-urmila-devi-dasi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}