{"id":226572,"date":"2023-01-02T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=226572"},"modified":"2023-01-01T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T10:05:06","slug":"kahlil-gibran-6-jan-1883-10-apr-1931-spirits-rebellious-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/01\/kahlil-gibran-6-jan-1883-10-apr-1931-spirits-rebellious-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 &#8211; 10 Apr 1931): Spirits Rebellious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when armed conflict and strong socioeconomic tensions cover much of the Middle East holdings of the old Ottoman Empire (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey) , it is helpful to recall a native son of the area and a positive voice for humanity. Kahlil Gibran is one of the most quoted prose poets, especially his 1923 work <em>The Prophet. <\/em>\u00a0In <em>The Prophet, <\/em>we are told that Almustafa, a holy man, has been living in exile, in a city called Orphalese for twelve years.\u00a0 A ship is coming to take him home to the island of his birth.\u00a0 People gather and ask him for his final words of wisdom \u2014 on love, on work, on joy, on children.\u00a0 The book has become bedside reading for all those who consider themselves \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148408\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kahlilgibran-selfportrait.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148408\" class=\"wp-image-148408 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kahlilgibran-selfportrait-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kahlilgibran-selfportrait-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/kahlilgibran-selfportrait.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kahlil Gibran, self-portrait<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/kahlil-gibran-6-jan-1883-10-apr-1931-spirits-rebellious-2\/\" >TO READ FULL BIO Go to Original &#8211; transcend.org\/tms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibran\u2019s bitter denunciation of both religious and political injustice brought his anticipated exile from Lebanon.  He was also excommunicated from the Church in a country where much civil identity and justice was based on religious membership \u2014 not to mention the popular idea that God did not allow excommunicated souls into his Heaven. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":151206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[900,1636,642],"class_list":["post-226572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies","tag-biography","tag-kahlil-gibran","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226572","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=226572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}