{"id":4204,"date":"2013-05-07T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2013-05-13T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:49:17","slug":"a-couple-of-poems-by-rumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/05\/07\/a-couple-of-poems-by-rumi\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of poems by Rumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty off-topic, but I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/05\/books\/review\/robert-bly-by-the-book.html?src=recg&amp;_r=0\">this<\/a> NTY interview with Robert Bly (whose work I have mixed feelings about). In it though, he quotes a couple of poems from Rumi translated by Coleman Bark. They were so great I felt the need to copy them down. No this is not a Tumblr blog, but sometimes I do this sort of thing anyway just to keep it filed away somewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who makes these changes?<br \/>\nI shoot an arrow right.<br \/>\nIt lands left.<br \/>\nI ride after a deer and find myself<br \/>\nChased by a hog.<br \/>\nI plot to get what I want<br \/>\nAnd end up in prison.<br \/>\nI dig pits to trap others<br \/>\nAnd fall in.<\/p>\n<p>I should be suspicious<br \/>\nOf what I want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I reach for a piece of wood. It turns into a lute.<br \/>\nI do some meanness. It turns out helpful.<br \/>\nI say one must not travel during the holy month.<br \/>\nThen I start out, and wonderful things happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty off-topic, but I really enjoyed this NTY interview with Robert Bly (whose work I have mixed feelings about). In it though, he quotes a couple of poems from Rumi translated by Coleman Bark. They were so great I felt the need to copy them down. No this is not a Tumblr blog, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/05\/07\/a-couple-of-poems-by-rumi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A couple of poems by Rumi&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}