{"id":33756,"date":"2017-08-05T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33756"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:50:12","slug":"nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUR FIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my yesteryears memories,<br \/>\nI see my ancestral home- an adjunct to my life<br \/>\na home painted with<br \/>\nnot just colors- but celebrations of life<\/p>\n<p>I peeked into the rasoi,<br \/>\na roshandaan- a quaint window with molds and webs<br \/>\ngreeted nostalgia and paper boats swarms<br \/>\nlike Poppy seeds chasing fragrant memories.<\/p>\n<p>I see Grandma in the kitchen<br \/>\nmaking different kinds of bread and sweets,<br \/>\nWhile grandpa sits on the<br \/>\nbeige colored sofa, his spectacle,<br \/>\nexhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Mom wearing a silky shawl, and<br \/>\nstarched cotton saree, with<br \/>\na big Red Sindoor Bindi, blushing on<br \/>\nher forehead reminds me of hibiscus blooms.<\/p>\n<p>Our home library cemented in a side wall<br \/>\nof the attic room; chirped like a hummingbird<br \/>\nan attic room where grandpa<br \/>\nused to keep his angeethi; the fading memories<br \/>\nglows with the touch\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>A vivacious living room where everyone gathered<br \/>\nin winters to have chai and savory patties with tamarind chutney.<br \/>\nYesteryears laughter now burns in the dying embers.<\/p>\n<p>The family album documented all the excitement<br \/>\nof celebrations, festivals, wedding and meet-ups- now an heirloom<br \/>\nfor my kids.<\/p>\n<p>Dad used to take me to ride on his new scooter<\/p>\n<p>while the old Lambretta roar fades into the past.<\/p>\n<p>An empty derelict vase bought from a local potter<br \/>\npreserved near the B&amp;W Television set with a shutter<br \/>\nunveiled crowded, forlorn and eager<br \/>\nmemories, recollections, and glimpses.<\/p>\n<p>The silence of the ancestral home is broken<\/p>\n<p>by the loud speakers\u2019 noises around festivities<\/p>\n<p>and fond trips to haat bazaar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyrighted by Ruchi Chopra, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>angeethi* <\/strong><span class=\"_Tgc\"><strong>a traditional brazier<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUR FIVE In my yesteryears memories, I see my ancestral home- an adjunct to my life a home painted with not just colors- but celebrations of life I peeked into the rasoi, a roshandaan- a quaint window with molds and webs greeted nostalgia and paper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":947,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2248,684,410,409],"class_list":["post-33756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-ancestral-home","tag-childhood","tag-memories","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34496,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33756\/revisions\/34496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}