{"id":6888,"date":"2009-01-30T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T10:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T10:15:00","slug":"smiling-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=6888","title":{"rendered":"Smiling Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnamrita das: <\/p>\n<p>Gray winter skies<br \/>\nfrigid wet outside<br \/>\nArchana sings prayers<br \/>\nthe fire blazes warmth.<\/p>\n<p>Beholding Radha Gopinatha<br \/>\nuplifting spiritual beauties<br \/>\nthey kindly glance<br \/>\nto bless everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Esthetically pleasing altar<br \/>\nDeities galore and glorious<br \/>\nlovely jeweled clothes<br \/>\nthe flowers smile.<\/p>\n<p>Like trumpets heralding<br \/>\nsun amidst darkness<br \/>\neach petal praising God<br \/>\narms pointing upward.<\/p>\n<p>The jewels of Kali<br \/>\nsimple yet profound<br \/>\na joy to behold<br \/>\nmarveling at the Creator.   <\/p>\n<p>Our life a wonder<br \/>\nsuch great opulence<br \/>\nwondrous beauty<br \/>\ncontrasting winter&#8217;s gloom.<\/p>\n<p>The flowers smile<br \/>\nRadha Gopinatha smile<br \/>\nwe smile and tear<br \/>\nfeeling grateful, blessed.<\/p>\n<p>Return to timeless japa<br \/>\nhours with my Lords<br \/>\nby their grace<br \/>\nI gradually wake up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnamrita das: Gray winter skies frigid wet outside Archana sings prayers the fire blazes warmth. Beholding Radha Gopinatha uplifting spiritual beauties they kindly glance to bless everyone.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karnamrita-dasa","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888","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=6888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}