{"id":12703,"date":"2013-10-31T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12703"},"modified":"2013-10-31T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:15:58","slug":"another-poem-by-rabindranath-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12703","title":{"rendered":"Another poem by Rabindranath Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are<br \/>\nThose who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words<br \/>\nThose who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you<br \/>\nThey who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The writer of this poem was Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 \u2013 7 August 1941), a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. \u00a0He was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). I confess that I had never heard of this poem &#8211; or even of Tagore &#8211; until I was introduced to it recently by a dear Chinese friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you They who love me do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}