{"id":2877,"date":"2007-02-11T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2007-02-11T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T15:36:57","slug":"unshattered-or-incomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=2877","title":{"rendered":"Unshattered or Incomplete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Madhava Gosh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shattered, as a crystal glass<br \/>\ndropped upon a temple&#8217;s marble floor?<br \/>\nAlas, my illusion is not so;<br \/>\nit bounces, resilient as a ball<br \/>\nonto a padded carpet,<br \/>\nwhere it waits for the cat<br \/>\nto find it and practice a death bite.<\/p>\n<p>If lucky, the predator will tire<br \/>\nand bat away the ball<br \/>\nto the waiting foot of Krishna<br \/>\nwho will kick it like a football<br \/>\nthat bounces from one body to another<br \/>\nuntil I can sincerely pray<br \/>\nLet the me\/mine of false ego<br \/>\nscatter at His lotus feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10005-lg.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Madhava Gosh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Shattered, as a crystal glass dropped upon a temple&#8217;s marble floor? Alas, my illusion is not so; it bounces, resilient as a ball onto a padded carpet&#8230;<!--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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","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=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}