{"id":504,"date":"2017-03-21T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2017-03-22T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:38:20","slug":"what-was-told-that-by-rumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Was Told, That&#8221; by Rumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"text-align: left;\">What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.\r\n \r\nWhat was told the cypress that made it strong and straight, what was \r\n\r\nwhispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane sweet, whatever\r\n \r\nwas said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil in Turkestan that makes them so handsome, whatever lets the pomegranate flower blush like a human face, that\r\nis being said to me now. I blush. \r\n\r\nWhatever put eloquence in language, that's happening here.\r\n \r\nThe great warehouse doors open; I fill with gratitude, chewing a piece of sugarcane,\r\n in love with the one to whom every that belongs!\r\n\r\n<em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">trans<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> by Coleman Barks<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the cypress that made it strong and straight, what was whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane sweet, whatever was said to the inhabitants of the town of Chigil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;What Was Told, That&#8221; by Rumi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,40,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-lent","category-poems-for-contemplation","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}