{"id":357,"date":"2008-03-10T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/khayyams-quatrain-an-interpretation\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:53:00","slug":"khayyams-quatrain-an-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/khayyams-quatrain-an-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Khayyam&#8217;s Quatrain: an Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe original:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nThis Universal wheel, this merry-go-round\r\nIn our imagination we have found\r\nThe sun a flame, in the Cosmic lantern bound\r\nWe are mere ghosts, revolving, the flame surround.\r\n\r\n                  -- Omar Khayyam\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>\nAn interpretation by  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shahriari.com\/shahriar\/background.htm\">Shahriar Shahriari<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nIn our imagination, the Cosmic Wheel\r\nWill cause us pain and cause us heal\r\nWe find our source give life and steal\r\nWe are phantoms that think and feel.\r\n\r\n                  --  Shahriar Shahriari<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>&#8230; both are beautiful, and inspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original: This Universal wheel, this merry-go-round In our imagination we have found The sun a flame, in the Cosmic lantern bound We are mere ghosts, revolving, the flame surround. &#8212; Omar Khayyam An interpretation by Shahriar Shahriari: In our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/khayyams-quatrain-an-interpretation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poetry","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}