{"id":983,"date":"2005-07-13T01:43:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T09:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/13\/the-light-from-the-darkness\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:35","slug":"the-light-from-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/13\/the-light-from-the-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light From The Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A rabbi asked his students, &#8220;When is it at dawn that one can tell the light from the darkness?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One student replied, &#8220;When I can tell a goat from a donkey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; answered the rabbi.<\/p>\n<p>Another said, &#8220;When I can tell a palm tree from a fig.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; answered the rabbi again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, then what is the answer?&#8221; his students pressed him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only when you look into the face of every man and every woman and see your brother and your sister,&#8221; said the rabbi. &#8220;Only then have you seen the light. All else is still darkness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rabbi asked his students, &#8220;When is it at dawn that one can tell the light from the darkness?&#8221; One student replied, &#8220;When I can tell a goat from a donkey.&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; answered the rabbi. Another said, &#8220;When I can tell a palm tree from a fig.&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; answered the rabbi again. &#8220;Well, then what [&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-983","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\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12560,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/12560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}