{"id":1365,"date":"2016-11-10T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2016-11-10T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:30:21","slug":"shihab-al-din-al-nuwayri-from-the-ultimate-ambition-in-the-arts-of-erudition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1365\/quotes\/shihab-al-din-al-nuwayri-from-the-ultimate-ambition-in-the-arts-of-erudition\/","title":{"rendered":"Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri: from \u201cThe Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">One of the caliphs of Egypt, al-\u2018Az?z ibn al-Mu\u2018izz al-\u2018Ubayd?, used to race doves.<br \/>\nOne day he competed against one of his servants, and the servant\u2019s bird flew faster than his own.<br \/>\nSo the caliph summoned his minister, Ibn Kalas al-Yah?d?, to inquire about this.<br \/>\nThe minister was too embarrassed to say that the caliph\u2019s bird had been beaten, so he wrote a poem instead:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\">You, to whom obedience is rewarded with security<br \/>\nAnd for whom the love of his subjects is a necessity:<br \/>\nYour bird was the victor, however<br \/>\nHe arrived with his chamberlain preceding him.<\/span><\/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>One of the caliphs of Egypt, al-\u2018Az?z ibn al-Mu\u2018izz al-\u2018Ubayd?, used to race doves. One day he competed against one of his servants, and the servant\u2019s bird flew faster than his own. So the caliph summoned his minister, Ibn Kalas al-Yah?d?, to inquire about this. The minister was too embarrassed to say that the caliph\u2019s <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2016\/1365\/quotes\/shihab-al-din-al-nuwayri-from-the-ultimate-ambition-in-the-arts-of-erudition\/' 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":[5],"tags":[321,320],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-doublespeak","tag-tact-and-circumspection","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}