{"id":1199,"date":"2017-04-26T15:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2017-04-26T16:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:48:51","slug":"tahir-ghani-selected-poems-from-the-captured-gazelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1199\/poems\/tahir-ghani-selected-poems-from-the-captured-gazelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahir Ghani: Selected Poems from The Captured Gazelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awareness: the source of countless headaches.<br \/>\nBlissful is the man unmindful of the world.<br \/>\nBirds wail not while unhatched,<br \/>\nMore confining than a cage though the egg be.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A dull mind may fix its gaze on the book,<br \/>\nYet meaning shall remain beyond its grasp.<br \/>\nThe empty-headed fail to fathom the depths,<br \/>\nLike a hollow bubble they can never plunge the sea.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>O you who are filled with self-conceit,<br \/>\nPause and look for a blemish within.<br \/>\nYears have I spent wandering the world,<br \/>\nA fruit with no stone I am yet to see.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Opening the eye in<br \/>\nlove&#8217;s tempestuous sea<br \/>\nBrought me to naught<br \/>\nlike a bubble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Captured-Gazelle-Poems-Ghani-Kashmiri-ebook\/dp\/B06XYML2XG\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493239195&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=captured+gazelle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41JIg%2B0Z5QL.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awareness: the source of countless headaches. Blissful is the man unmindful of the world. Birds wail not while unhatched, More confining than a cage though the egg be. A dull mind may fix its gaze on the book, Yet meaning shall remain beyond its grasp. The empty-headed fail to fathom the depths, Like a hollow <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1199\/poems\/tahir-ghani-selected-poems-from-the-captured-gazelle\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}