{"id":10102,"date":"2022-03-05T19:07:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2022-03-05T19:07:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T19:07:36","slug":"loving-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/05\/loving-tagore\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The one who plants trees\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Knowing that he will never\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sit in their shade\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Has at least\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Started to understand\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The meaning of life\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I read these few lines<\/p>\n<p>As I sat on a cool station platform<\/p>\n<p>On a sweltering night in East India<\/p>\n<p>All the benches had been taken<\/p>\n<p>So I leaned against my tired rucksack<\/p>\n<p>And watched the frequent expresses<\/p>\n<p>Scream through the dull quiet station<\/p>\n<p>My Indian friend had given me a book of Tagore&#8217;s poetry<\/p>\n<p>So that I might pass the time between trains and cities<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whether I would ever plant a tree<\/p>\n<p>Under which others might rest<\/p>\n<p>Was a question that I was unable to answer<\/p>\n<p>But I knew that I had left my footprints<\/p>\n<p>Throughout India and in the memories<\/p>\n<p>Of those who had met me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one who plants trees\u00a0 Knowing that he will never\u00a0 Sit in their shade\u00a0 Has at least\u00a0 Started to understand\u00a0 The meaning of life\u00a0 &nbsp; I read these few lines As I sat on a cool station platform On a sweltering night in East India All the benches had been taken So I leaned against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10102\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}