{"id":506,"date":"2018-09-19T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T08:43:00","slug":"dandelions-the-wandering-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Dandelions : The Wandering Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-507 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dandelion-girl-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Holding that delicate and dainty <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dandelion<\/span>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I blow it softly with the twinkling eyes and puckered lips,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Summoning my deep desires and some secret wish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To a faraway, unforeseen land, the seeds fly,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Carried sublimely with the princely wind,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That embraces them with a gentle and quiet kiss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But prude-the dandelion Seeds are not, for they remain placid,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Forever ready, to grow in the sunshine or in the shade,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They whisper on the side of the road, and on the meadow, they reminisce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just like my forever wandering thoughts and emotions,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the pursuit of unknown and to feed the questing mind,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They too are beyond the customs of the usual and nothing do they resist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Like the<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Dandelions<\/span>, they also drift away to the places unknown,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To grow in the sunshine and to grow in the shade,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unmindful, if it\u2019s kosher or a bit inured or perhaps something pure bliss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Picture credit: #123RF.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Inspiration credit: #RuskinBond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Holding that delicate and dainty Dandelion, I blow it softly with the twinkling eyes and puckered lips, Summoning my deep desires and some secret [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[81,101,317],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-english","tag-dandelion","tag-english-poetry","tag-wandering-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}