{"id":8,"date":"2007-02-14T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashokkarania.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-02-14T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T15:06:18","slug":"the-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/the-road-not-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Not Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been an exciting journey so far with great surprises and shocks. There have been occassions where I have not chosen the obvious road. Creating my own road or traveling a less traveled path has inspired me.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Frost&#8217;s classic poem has always been my inspiration. The last paragraph is just awesome and sums up the journey of all success stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Road Not Taken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<br \/>\nAnd sorry I could not travel both<br \/>\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood<br \/>\nAnd looked down one as far as I could<br \/>\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p>\n<p>Then took the other, as just as fair,<br \/>\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,<br \/>\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;<br \/>\nThough as for that the passing there<br \/>\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/p>\n<p>And both that morning equally lay<br \/>\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.<br \/>\nOh, I kept the first for another day!<br \/>\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,<br \/>\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br \/>\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:<br \/>\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014<br \/>\nI took the one less traveled by,<br \/>\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has been an exciting journey so far with great surprises and shocks. There have been occassions where I have not chosen the obvious road. Creating my own road or traveling a less traveled path has inspired me. Robert Frost&#8217;s classic poem has always been my inspiration. The last paragraph is just awesome and sums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-classical-gyan","category-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}