{"id":132,"date":"2020-04-24T03:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T03:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2021-08-11T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T10:07:35","slug":"golden-boughs-of-banyan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/golden-boughs-of-banyan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden boughs of banyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banyan with golden boughs,<br \/>\nSo bold and bright.<br \/>\nYour leaves are gone&#8230;<br \/>\nYet you stand upright,<br \/>\nAgainst the sun,<br \/>\nYour glistening sheen,<br \/>\nTall, Cheerful, so pristine.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves that seemed<br \/>\nYour identity,<br \/>\nYour pride and garb&#8230;<br \/>\nWilted, drooped&#8230;fell,<br \/>\nAnd left you one by one.<br \/>\nYou did not lament,<br \/>\nStanding tall against the odds.<br \/>\nYour roots were strong,<br \/>\nSo nothing went wrong.<br \/>\nYour boughs look thin.<br \/>\nBut they\u2019re equally strong.<br \/>\nThey know when to let go,<br \/>\nAnd when to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Year after year I see you<br \/>\nAs the cycle goes on&#8230;<br \/>\nI see a more strengthened you<br \/>\nAfter hard weather is gone.<br \/>\nYour arms reach out to me.<br \/>\nYou speak to me as<br \/>\nI see you best at this time.<br \/>\nThe harder it gets the more you shine.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve felt you dancing in the breeze,<br \/>\nWaving to the other trees,<br \/>\nRejoicing the new leaves.<br \/>\nBut I see the best of you now.<br \/>\nYour true stark self&#8230;<br \/>\nHow complete your core is,<br \/>\nHappiness glistening from within.<br \/>\nWith scars of years that\u2019ve been<br \/>\nSo beautiful&#8230;outside and in.<\/p>\n<p>These thoughts come in the hard times that the world and each one of us is going through. As I revisit and seek my inner strength, I hope we\u2019ll all come out of this stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-uncategorized","tag-neerjapeters-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duendethestudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}