{"id":812,"date":"2005-03-18T01:07:32","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T09:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/18\/what-do-you-think-will-happen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:47","slug":"what-do-you-think-will-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/18\/what-do-you-think-will-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Think Will Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>if you can&#8217;t go to sleep<br \/>my dear soul<br \/>for tonight<br \/>what do you think will happen<\/p>\n<p>if you pass your night<br \/>and merge it with dawn<br \/>for the sake of heart<br \/>what do you think will happen<\/p>\n<p>if the entire world<br \/>is covered with the blossoms<br \/>you have labored to plant<br \/>what do you think will happen<\/p>\n<p>if the elixir of life<br \/>that has been hidden in the dark<br \/>fills the desert and towns<br \/>what do you think will happen<\/p>\n<p>if because of<br \/>your generosity and love<br \/>a few humans find their lives<br \/>what do you think will happen<\/p>\n<p>if you pour an entire jar<br \/>filled with joyous wine<br \/>on the head of those already drunk<br \/>what do you think will happen<\/p>\n<p>go my friend<br \/>bestow your love<br \/>even on your enemies<br \/>if you touch their hearts<br \/>what do you think will happen<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rumi, Ghazal 838<br \/>\nTranslation by Nader Khalili<br \/>\n&#8220;Rumi, Fountain of Fire&#8221; Burning Gate Press, 1992<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you can&#8217;t go to sleepmy dear soulfor tonightwhat do you think will happen if you pass your nightand merge it with dawnfor the sake of heartwhat do you think will happen if the entire worldis covered with the blossomsyou have labored to plantwhat do you think will happen if the elixir of lifethat has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12638,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/12638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}