{"id":27,"date":"2011-11-19T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-07-06T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:30:12","slug":"chance-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/poetry\/chance-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chance Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That instant, when your eyes meet<br \/>\nAnd time stands still<br \/>\nInfinite thoughts whiz<br \/>\nBlurred, formless<\/p>\n<p>You start to say something<br \/>\nWitty and pretentious<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s almost out<br \/>\nWhen you hesitate<\/p>\n<p>Then you go on your way<br \/>\nAnd wonder &#8216;fterwards<br \/>\nWhat you could&#8217;ve done<br \/>\nWhat might&#8217;ve been<\/p>\n<p>What if it went right<br \/>\nAnd you met for coffee later?<br \/>\nWhat if it went wrong<br \/>\nAt worst, what would&#8217;ve happened?<\/p>\n<p>Would not it be easier knowing?<br \/>\nGlad to have tried,<br \/>\nMaybe only to fail miserably,<br \/>\nThan second guessing?<\/p>\n<p>You realize<br \/>\nPeople don&#8217;t get lucky<br \/>\nIt takes time and effort<br \/>\nTo get things right<\/p>\n<p>Have to take matters<br \/>\nInto your own hands<br \/>\nVow to yourself<br \/>\nNever to miss another chance<\/p>\n<p>Lost in thought<br \/>\nYou look up<br \/>\nTo see her standing across<br \/>\nAnd your eyes meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That instant, when your eyes meet<br \/>\nAnd time stands still<br \/>\nInfinite thoughts whiz<br \/>\nBlurred, formless<\/p>\n<p>You start to say something<br \/>\nWitty and pretentious<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s almost out<br \/>\nWhen you hesitate<\/p>\n<p>Then you go on your way<br \/>\nAnd wonder &#8216;fterwards<br \/>\nWhat you could&#8217;ve done<br \/>\nWhat might&#8217;ve been<\/p>\n<p>What if it went right<br \/>\nAnd you met for coffee later?<br \/>\nWhat if it went wrong<br \/>\nAt worst, what would&#8217;ve happened?<\/p>\n<p>Would not it be easier knowing?<br \/>\nGlad to have tried,<br \/>\nMaybe only to fail miserably,<br \/>\nThan second guessing?<\/p>\n<p>You realize<br \/>\nPeople don&#8217;t get lucky<br \/>\nIt takes time and effort<br \/>\nTo get things right<\/p>\n<p>Have to take matters<br \/>\nInto your [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[17,38,39,20,6,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ratneshneema.com\/vox-intus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}