{"id":545,"date":"2019-09-23T18:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2019-09-25T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T09:15:26","slug":"the-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/the-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An enigma beneath a smiling mask<br \/>\nA Vigen\u00e8re cipher you think you have the key to<br \/>\nYou see a tranquil stream<br \/>\nbut she\u2019s a tsunami waiting for her earthquake<\/p>\n<p>She was once a white painting<br \/>\nThe beauty of the intricate strokes of the brush<br \/>\nHer warm white, her tactile texture<br \/>\nwas lost on the foolish world<\/p>\n<p>Like a fraudulent artist<br \/>\nyou marred her canvas<br \/>\nYou teased her with touches of royal blue and light lilac<br \/>\nBut before she knew it she was covered in a cherry wine red she did not want to be dipped in<\/p>\n<p>Your preconceived notions<br \/>\nYour Quick conclusions<br \/>\nVandalised her<br \/>\nRuined her<\/p>\n<p>No longer will I hide behind the mask<br \/>\nNo longer will I let you think that you can decipher me<br \/>\nAs I begin to scrape away the bruised black and that cherry wine red<br \/>\nThe ground begins to shake<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Linu George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enigma beneath a smiling mask A Vigen\u00e8re cipher you think you have the key to You see a tranquil stream but she\u2019s a tsunami waiting for her earthquake She was once a white painting The beauty of the intricate strokes of the brush Her warm white, her tactile texture was lost on the foolish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-saahitya","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitk.acm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}