{"id":500,"date":"2017-11-16T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:42:06","slug":"stars-and-a-crescent-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"STARS AND A CRESCENT MOON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/stars.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-501\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/stars-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"stars\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/stars-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/stars.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we approach the holiday season, I thought a little poetry might be a good gift. A way to pause, breathe, slow down. Here are a few lines from Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet, translated by Coleman Barks. This is the last stanza of a poem titled &#8220;A Bowl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The universe and the light of the stars come through me.<\/p>\n<p>I am the crescent moon put up<\/p>\n<p>over the gate to the festival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Image courtesy of Adobe images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach the holiday season, I thought a little poetry might be a good gift. A way to pause, breathe, slow down. Here are a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burnout","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-84","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}