{"id":200,"date":"2005-07-27T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=200"},"modified":"2005-07-30T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T20:08:05","slug":"qasidah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/qasidah\/","title":{"rendered":"qasidah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>qasidah<\/i> describes a rite of passage in which the poet leaves his familiar surroundings, encounters a host of dangers, and returns to his tribe, celebrating his membership in the community. The poem contains detailed descriptions of the desert, the wildlife, and the riding animal of the poet &#8212; a horse, or more commonly, a camel. Each <i>qasidah<\/i> lampoons the tribe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enemies and praises its leaders. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/news\/humanities\/2002-01\/poets.html\">Of Poets, Prophets, and Politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The qasidah describes a rite of passage in which the poet leaves his familiar surroundings, encounters a host of dangers, and returns to his tribe, celebrating his membership in the community. The poem contains&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}