{"id":375,"date":"2014-01-19T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athma.co.in\/?p=375"},"modified":"2014-02-07T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T09:19:21","slug":"just-to-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Just to Belong !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I had woken up early before the break of dawn on a Sunday, I thought it was the perfect time for a \u00a0morning walk around our township. It was drizzling and dark with an occasional call\u00a0 from a cuckoo or two ,\u00a0 punctuating the silence. Calming and rejuvenating this \u00a0solitude is , bringing along with it \u00a0a sense of belonging \u00a0with nature \u2026<\/p>\n<p>As dawn broke, the scene came alive with everything around looking absolutely fresh from the rains .<\/p>\n<p>The riot of colors around was a pretty sight to behold as I walked past many a flowering tree. They seemed to ooze a fresh spurt of life after the rains ,silently conversing with the passer by, of many tales untold \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>In the distance I could hear the peacocks cry. They were out after the rains , with the chicks in tow \u00a0and grazing around : \u00a0It was bliss \u2013 to savor \u00a0and live the moment.. just to belong.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-381\" href=\"http:\/\/www.athma.co.in\/?attachment_id=381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-381\" title=\"MrngWalk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.athma.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MrngWalk-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MrngWalk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/athma.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MrngWalk-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I had woken up early before the break of dawn on a Sunday, I thought it was the perfect time for a \u00a0morning walk around our township. It was drizzling and dark with an occasional call\u00a0 from a cuckoo or two ,\u00a0 punctuating the silence. Calming and rejuvenating this \u00a0solitude is , bringing along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-that-caught-my-eye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athma.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}