{"id":11638,"date":"2010-11-09T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2010-11-09T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T04:17:09","slug":"persian-poetry-tuesday-a-quatrain-by-rumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11638","title":{"rendered":"Persian Poetry Tuesday: A Quatrain by Rumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t catch the scent, don&#8217;t walk down this lane.<br \/>\nIf you won&#8217;t undress, don&#8217;t enter this river.<br \/>\nThis is the source of all directions.<br \/>\nStay on your side, don&#8217;t come over here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8211;Translated by Iraj Anvar and Anne Twitty in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781596750272\" target=\"_blank\">Say Nothing: Poems of Jalal al-Din Rumi in Persian and English<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cross-posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/richardjnewman.com\/2010\/11\/09\/persian-poetry-tuesday-a-quatrain-by-rumi\/\">The Poetry in The Politics and The Politics in The Poetry<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t catch the scent, don&#8217;t walk down this lane. If you won&#8217;t undress, don&#8217;t enter this river. This is the source of all directions. Stay on your side, don&#8217;t come over here. &#8211;Translated by Iraj Anvar and Anne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11638\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}