{"id":205,"date":"2005-09-12T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T08:23:37","slug":"granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2005\/09\/12\/granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Granted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Wish.. we all do.. for different things &#8211; more money, a better life, that prized job, with which we think our life would become a little better than what it is now, momentarily or for a lifetime&#8230; and like always, we forget what has been granted to us without asking, and what we have taken for granted&#8230; <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">a loving set of parents, a good education,food when we are hungry, shelter when we need it, a lifestyle that is comfortable, money to take care of our needs, all senses intact, a couple of arms and a couple of legs, enough of thinking ability to enjoy a good book, a taste for good music and good food.. <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">and while taking this for granted we also assume a lot of things &#8211; from the newspaper and milk being delivered in the morning to our surviving the day&#8230; that we will not fall sick, that the vehicle will not conk, that nothing will rock our personal or professional boat, that a natural disaster will not befall our peaceful existence, that we have all this because we deserve to&#8230;..<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">and also in between there are some moments when we take a look out of our coccooned world, and see others&#8217; version of reality, a life where survival itself is the biggest victory, and then we wonder&#8230; at least for sometime..<br \/>until next time, what if you could grant wishes&#8230;..<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wish.. we all do.. for different things &#8211; more money, a better life, that prized job, with which we think our life would become a little better than what it is now, momentarily or for a lifetime&#8230; and like always, we forget what has been granted to us without asking, and what we have taken <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2005\/09\/12\/granted\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[6117],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-things-for-granted"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15204,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/15204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}