{"id":987,"date":"2012-07-19T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/?p=987"},"modified":"2012-08-13T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:38:48","slug":"more-rumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"More Rumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun is love. The lover, a speck circling the sun.\u00a0 A Spring wind moves to dance any branch that isn&#8217;t dead.<\/p>\n<p>I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I&#8217;ve been knocking from the inside!<\/p>\n<p>Dance, when you&#8217;re broken open. Dance, if you&#8217;ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you&#8217;re perfectly free.<\/p>\n<p>Questions<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Why do we live in the past when the present is so precious? Who or what are we protecting, and from what, reality or fantasy?\u00a0Is avoidance and denial\u00a0the answer, lulling ourselves back into the safety of sleep where the projection on the screen of life fades and is once again delegated to the past? Isn&#8217;t 36 years of practice long enough? Aren&#8217;t\u00a0we ready for the real deal?<\/p>\n<p>Is the &#8220;Summer Summer of Love&#8221; a possibility or just a dream?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I want to Dance until the blisters on\u00a0my toes bleed like my heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Is the Summer of love a possibility or just a fantasy?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe reality in another life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun is love. The lover, a speck circling the sun.\u00a0 A Spring wind moves to dance any branch that isn&#8217;t dead. I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yogawithbarbara.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}