{"id":217902,"date":"2022-08-15T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=217902"},"modified":"2022-08-11T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:05:13","slug":"lets-love-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/lets-love-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Love Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let\u2019s love each other,<br \/>\nlet\u2019s cherish each other, my friend,<br \/>\nbefore we lose each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You\u2019ll long for me when I\u2019m gone.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll make a truce with me.<br \/>\nSo why put me on trial while I\u2019m alive?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why adore the dead but battle the living?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You\u2019ll kiss the headstone of my grave.<br \/>\nLook, I\u2019m lying here still as a corpse,<br \/>\ndead as a stone. Kiss my face instead!<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rumi-1-e1593334935467.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-163624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rumi-1-e1593334935467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><em>Jal\u0101l ad-D\u012bn Muhammad R\u016bm\u012b, or simply Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic from Greater Khorasan, Iran, originally from Afghanistan, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rumi\" >Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s love each other,<br \/>\nlet\u2019s cherish each other, my friend,<br \/>\nbefore we lose each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":163624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868,2006],"class_list":["post-217902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry","tag-rumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}