{"id":7,"date":"2007-07-25T08:31:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/2007\/07\/25\/the-song-of-the-sikh\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T15:34:39","slug":"the-song-of-the-sikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/2007\/07\/25\/the-song-of-the-sikh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Song Of The Sikh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">The Song Of The Sikh<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ah ! Well, let my hair grow long;<\/p>\n<p>I cannot forget the knot He tied on my head;<\/p>\n<p>It is sacred, it is his mark of remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>The Master has bathed me<\/p>\n<p>In the light of suns not yet seen;<\/p>\n<p>There is eternity bound in this tender fragile knot.<\/p>\n<p>I touch the sky when I touch my hair,<\/p>\n<p>And a thousand stars twinkle through the night.<\/p>\n<p>Who says the hair is no more than grass ?<\/p>\n<p>Yet a single hair is a dear remembrance,<\/p>\n<p>An heirloom, a trust, a pledge, a love,<\/p>\n<p>A vow, an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>My form is but a statue of dumb gratitude<\/p>\n<p>for The knot of Friendship tied by those Kings of  Eternity,<\/p>\n<p>The Gurus who came to the Punjab;<\/p>\n<p>The Saviours who were gracious to love me,<\/p>\n<p>and Made me a home in the Realm of Eternal Beauty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Puran Singh<\/p>\n<p>Extract from Hail Hair !<br \/>\n<em><font color=\"#366732\">by Dr. Birendra Kaur<\/font><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Song Of The Sikh &#8220;Ah ! Well, let my hair grow long; I cannot forget the knot He tied on my head; It is sacred, it is his mark of remembrance. The Master has bathed me In the light of suns not yet seen; There is eternity bound in this tender fragile knot. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/spiritbornpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}