{"id":779,"date":"2009-06-19T03:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anilg.in\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-06-19T03:36:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:06:25","slug":"why-should-i-wash-those-steps-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"why should  i wash those steps again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>while going to the temple every day<\/pre>\n<pre>i would now and then trip<\/pre>\n<pre>over the steps<\/pre>\n<pre>rains had let the moss grow<\/pre>\n<pre>and since not many people came this way,<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>it was quite slippery<\/pre>\n<pre>i wondered if it was a reminder of the\u00a0respect<\/pre>\n<pre>dueto the deity<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>in the temple<\/pre>\n<pre>that i need to wash the steps<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>but then she does not accept<\/pre>\n<p>the offering too easily,<\/p>\n<pre>will she ask,<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>why should \u00a0i wash the steps again and again<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>is it to let more devotees come,<\/pre>\n<pre>or let those who come not trip<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>or just to make me feel happy,<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>or suffer the\u00a0<em>shrap ( wish of a deadly future)<\/em><\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre>given by the mosses i removed<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>while going to the temple every day i would now and then trip over the steps rains had let the moss grow and since not many people came this way, it was quite slippery i wondered if it was a reminder of the\u00a0respect dueto the deity in the temple that i need to wash the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anilg.in\/?p=779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;why should  i wash those steps again&#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-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anilg.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}