{"id":760,"date":"2016-10-15T10:16:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T04:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/?p=760"},"modified":"2017-03-22T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T05:03:11","slug":"last-give-and-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/last-give-and-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Last give and take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">One day a sick pauper<br \/>\nundid the knots<br \/>\nthat tied his tattered coat together.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Down fell the murk<br \/>\nfree came the stench<br \/>\nfrom fresh red wounds<br \/>\nthat secretly loved their colour.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He collected his dirt in a bowl<br \/>\nand took it to the sea<br \/>\nand spoke with the dancing waves.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This my last give and take.<br \/>\nYear after year<br \/>\nthe greedy holes in my coat<br \/>\nask for more to fill their hunger.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s empty pockets openly refuse<br \/>\nto store away my fear.<br \/>\nWhat use is such a cover?<br \/>\nSlaughter me naked instead!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A glistening smile from the sea<br \/>\ndelivered him a message<br \/>\nin a sun-lit bottle.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Tired little pauper,<br \/>\nIn exchange for your imaginary coat<br \/>\nI trade with you a secret.<br \/>\nI swim inside you and<br \/>\nyour wish is my command.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day a sick pauper undid the knots that tied his tattered coat together. Down fell the murk free came the stench from fresh red wounds that secretly loved their colour. He collected his dirt in a bowl and took it to the sea and spoke with the dancing waves. &#8220;This my last give and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[44,7],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}