{"id":561,"date":"2007-12-27T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/12\/27\/flower-art\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T00:07:07","slug":"flower-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/12\/27\/flower-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Divine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bouquet.jpg\" title=\"bouquet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bouquet.jpg\" alt=\"Fowers, the Divine Art\" height=\"157\" style=\"width: 231px;height: 157px\" title=\"Fowers, the Divine Art\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Mankind, with all its creativity and discipline,<br \/>\nCannot create a thing as beautiful as a flower.<br \/>\nHow to fashion each perfect part?<br \/>\nThe shape, the hue, the texture,<br \/>\nThe symmetry, the angularity,<br \/>\nThe flamboyance, the staid?<br \/>\nThe abundance, the rarity,<br \/>\nThe variety, the uniformity?<br \/>\nThese are beyond the minds<br \/>\nAnd imaginations of humankind.<br \/>\nOur dabbled attempts at art<br \/>\nAre nothing compared with<br \/>\nThe wondrous palette<br \/>\nOf a simple, domestic garden.<br \/>\nThe creative genius of God<br \/>\nIs beyond our comprehension<br \/>\nAnd evades our clumsy attempts<br \/>\nAt portraying the Divine Art. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Melody Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankind, with all its creativity and discipline, Cannot create a thing as beautiful as a flower. How to fashion each perfect part? The shape, the hue, the texture, The symmetry, the angularity, The flamboyance, the staid? The abundance, the rarity, The variety, the uniformity? These are beyond the minds And imaginations of humankind. Our dabbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,2,13],"tags":[649,192,206,239],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-art","category-poems","tag-art","tag-creativity","tag-divine-art","tag-flowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-93","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}