{"id":209,"date":"2005-07-30T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=209"},"modified":"2005-07-30T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T21:37:26","slug":"a-trip-inside-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/a-trip-inside-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"a trip inside the soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poetry is the soul of the Arabs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Ghazi al-Gosaibi. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That is no poetic exaggeration: whatever troubles that soul is reflected, magically, in the poetry. Reading Arabic poetry, therefore, is not an idle exercise. It is a trip inside the Arab soul.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\/English\/Views\/2002\/04\/article17.shtml\">Ghazi al-Gosaibi<\/a>, Saudi Arabian poet, ambassador to the UK<\/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>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poetry is the soul of the Arabs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Ghazi al-Gosaibi. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That is no poetic exaggeration: whatever troubles that soul is reflected, magically, in the poetry. Reading Arabic poetry, therefore, is not an idle exercise.&#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-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}