{"id":605,"date":"2008-02-22T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/02\/22\/say-i-am-you\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T05:58:11","slug":"say-i-am-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/02\/22\/say-i-am-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Say I Am You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/rumi.jpg\" title=\"rumi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/rumi.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Jalaluddin Rumi, Sufi poet\" title=\"Jalaluddin Rumi, Sufi poet\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Say I Am You&#8221; is a beautiful poem written by Rumi, a Sufi poet who was born in Takistan (now Afghanistan) in 1207. With his family, he travelled extensively in Moslem countries, finally settling in Anatolia (now Turkey).<\/p>\n<p>An accomplished scholar, he was introduced to Sufism by a wandering dervish, Shamshuddin. Shamshuddin&#8217;s death heralded an outpouring of Rumi&#8217;s poetry. The underlying theme of\u00a0his poems is the absolute love of God.<\/p>\n<p>The Youtube video (link below)\u00a0shows Rumi&#8217;s poem, &#8220;Say I Am You&#8221;, illustrated by\u00a0a beautiful collection of photographs and accompanied by wonderful music. Please enjoy them.<\/p>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p>(photograph: loc.gov)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Say I Am You&#8221; is a beautiful poem written by Rumi, a Sufi poet who was born in Takistan (now Afghanistan) in 1207. With his family, he travelled extensively in Moslem countries, finally settling in Anatolia (now Turkey). An accomplished scholar, he was introduced to Sufism by a wandering dervish, Shamshuddin. Shamshuddin&#8217;s death heralded an [&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":[40,11,13],"tags":[257,334,402,440,474,511],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40","category-music","category-poems","tag-god","tag-love","tag-poetry","tag-rumi","tag-shamshuddin","tag-sufi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-9L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}