{"id":244,"date":"2010-07-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=244"},"modified":"2011-07-12T05:58:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T09:58:01","slug":"one-song-jalallud%e2%80%99din-rumi-translated-by-coleman-barks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"One Song <br \/> (Jalallud\u2019din Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All these religions, all this singing<br \/>\nOne song.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe differences are just illusion and vanity.<br \/>\nSunlight looks different on this wall<br \/>\nthan it does on this wall,<br \/>\nand a whole lot different<br \/>\non this wall over here,<br \/>\nbut it is still sunlight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe have borrowed these clothes,<br \/>\nthese time and space personalities,<br \/>\nfrom a light,<br \/>\nand, when we praise,<br \/>\nwe put it back in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJust as one man can be a father to you<br \/>\nbrother to another and uncle to yet another,<br \/>\nwhat you are searching for has many names<br \/>\nbut one existence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStop looking for one of the names.<br \/>\nMove beyond attachment to names.<br \/>\nEvery war and conflict between human beings<br \/>\nhas happened because of some disagreement about<br \/>\nthe names.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt\u2019s such unnecessary foolishness<br \/>\nbecause just beyond the arguing,<br \/>\nwhere we are all one people,<br \/>\nthere is a long table of companionship<br \/>\nbeautifully set<br \/>\nand just waiting for us to sit down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All these religions, all this singing One song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks different on this wall than it does on this wall, and a whole lot different on this wall over here, but it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifes-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}