{"id":776,"date":"2016-10-22T13:11:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/?p=776"},"modified":"2017-03-22T10:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T05:02:40","slug":"notes-of-a-silent-flute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/notes-of-a-silent-flute\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes of a silent flute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">On the darkest night<br \/>\nnotes of a silent flute<br \/>\nplay fire-dance in my heart.<br \/>\nThe player sends his invisible breath<br \/>\nto hold me hush within its palm.<br \/>\nFollowing footsteps of its tunes<br \/>\nI grow invisible too.<br \/>\nOne time I&#8217;m a bird<br \/>\nresting free atop tall walls.<br \/>\nAnother, a foolish slave<br \/>\ndrunk on a drop of love.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m lost to my world now.<br \/>\nRe-entered, I find a dance<br \/>\nin each exchange.<br \/>\nThe lines that make things visible<br \/>\nare laughing at themselves,<br \/>\nbursting at turned-coat hems.<br \/>\nMy dizziness blurts it out<br \/>\nthat with pockets full of safety,<br \/>\nI was rotting<br \/>\non an unreliable edge of the universe.<br \/>\nMeanwhile,<br \/>\nthe sunset and the sky<br \/>\ngrow brighter in my eyes.<br \/>\nAnd I know I have arrived<br \/>\nwhen I swallow them<br \/>\nand taste sweet drops<br \/>\nof their love-making<br \/>\nbehind lit clouds of infinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the darkest night notes of a silent flute play fire-dance in my heart. The player sends his invisible breath to hold me hush within its palm. Following footsteps of its tunes I grow invisible too. One time I&#8217;m a bird resting free atop tall walls. Another, a foolish slave drunk on a drop of [&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":[46],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipi.org.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}