{"id":162,"date":"2006-11-13T01:42:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anilg.in\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-11-13T01:42:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T20:12:47","slug":"there-used-to-be-a-tree-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"there used to be a tree here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there used to be a tree here<\/p>\n<p>off th emain road<\/p>\n<p>under which some times<\/p>\n<p>when people were tired<\/p>\n<p>they sat down to take rest<\/p>\n<p>some stayed on longer and some<\/p>\n<p>walked away<\/p>\n<p>eager to reach their destination<\/p>\n<p>today the tree is not there,<\/p>\n<p>termites will not tell you its address<\/p>\n<p>nor the way to each its roots<\/p>\n<p>all the paths to go there have been sealed<\/p>\n<p>by the slow<\/p>\n<p>subtle<\/p>\n<p>and still<\/p>\n<p>moments of silence<\/p>\n<p>you may try and thenblame yourself<\/p>\n<p>for not having come in time<\/p>\n<p>but the truth is<\/p>\n<p>the tree has lived its life off<\/p>\n<p>it is time we let it be forgotten and<\/p>\n<p>let new sprouts come, grow<\/p>\n<p>and give shade<\/p>\n<p>may be you find that<\/p>\n<p>more soothing and reassuring<\/p>\n<p>the old tree<\/p>\n<p>be allowed to wither away<\/p>\n<p>from even the memory<\/p>\n<p>lest it reminds you of<\/p>\n<p>all that it might have offered<\/p>\n<p>but is unbale to do so<\/p>\n<p>let desires of spending few moments<\/p>\n<p>under a lost tree not drain<\/p>\n<p>your spirit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there used to be a tree here off th emain road under which some times when people were tired they sat down to take rest some stayed on longer and some walked away eager to reach their destination today the tree is not there, termites will not tell you its address nor the way to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anilg.in\/?p=162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;there used to be a tree here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}