{"id":1913,"date":"2020-06-12T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2020-06-12T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:37:22","slug":"an-ode-to-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/12\/an-ode-to-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to a Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unsuspecting pachyderm<\/p>\n<p>An expectant and hungry mother<\/p>\n<p>Disoriented and infirm<\/p>\n<p>Wanted food for the little other<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The village idiots<\/p>\n<p>What were they thinking?<\/p>\n<p>With a pineapple and perhaps a few cigarettes butts<\/p>\n<p>More merciless then Ming<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hunger reduced her guard maybe<\/p>\n<p>Ate the offering so rigged<\/p>\n<p>The explosion made her flee<\/p>\n<p>To a river and she uncontrollably jigged<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Writhing in pain &#8211; worried about the other<\/p>\n<p>A pain only understood by a mother<\/p>\n<p>For many of us just a wild animal another<\/p>\n<p>But for others don&#8217;t you feel a smother?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A Tribute to the Elephant Mother)<\/p>\n<p>By Prof. Eswaran Narasimhan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unsuspecting pachyderm An expectant and hungry mother Disoriented and infirm Wanted food for the little other &nbsp; The village<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}