{"id":806,"date":"2018-12-09T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/?p=806"},"modified":"2019-01-21T05:17:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:17:29","slug":"elephant-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/2018\/12\/09\/elephant-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Shiva cut off the head,
\nNot realizing it was his son
\nReplaced it with an elephant’s
\nInfinite Wisdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They pray to Ganesha
\nHoping he will bless
\nTo ensure their ventures
\nEnd in success<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I searched for an elephant
as white as the snow,
when told it’s a myth,
it came as a blow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The blind men groped parts,
\ntheir opinions strong,
\neach partially right
\nyet completely wrong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elephant in traffic
An autonomous car
Minding his master
Until pushed too far<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Elephant tears
\nNot when they cry
\nElephants cry
\nWhen their tears run dry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I touched this person,
much bigger than me,
painted her face,
for a future memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Working the elephant,
\nHow useful it can be,
\nMissing the truth,
\nThey’re meant to be free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Gandhi says
\nAll life we must respect
\nWhen the elephant judges
\nWill we pass the test?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Shiva cut off the head, Not realizing it was his son Replaced it with an elephant’s Infinite Wisdom They pray to Ganesha Hoping he will bless To ensure their ventures End in success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,10],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-india","tag-white-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetembo.com\/clip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}