{"id":542,"date":"2012-08-04T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/04\/a-philosophy-for-mars-from-a-13th-century-persian-poet\/"},"modified":"2013-06-30T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T19:49:38","slug":"a-philosophy-for-mars-from-a-13th-century-persian-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/04\/a-philosophy-for-mars-from-a-13th-century-persian-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Philosophy for Mars from a 13th Century Persian Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dD0nj3YauRA\/UBSAIWc1Q2I\/AAAAAAAADTw\/9dZCNDj5Rv8\/s1600\/421285_391270407551614_873584422_n.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dD0nj3YauRA\/UBSAIWc1Q2I\/AAAAAAAADTw\/9dZCNDj5Rv8\/s1600\/421285_391270407551614_873584422_n.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,<\/div>\n<div>Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>or cultural system. I am not from the East<\/div>\n<div>or the West, not out of the ocean or up<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not<\/div>\n<div>composed of elements at all. I do not exist,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>am not an entity in this world or the next,<\/div>\n<div>did not descend from Adam or Eve or any<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>origin story. My place is placeless, a trace<\/div>\n<div>of the traceless. Neither body or soul.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I belong to the beloved, have seen the two<\/div>\n<div>worlds as one and that one call to and know,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>first, last, outer, inner, only that<\/div>\n<div>breath breathing human being.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>Rendering of one of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rumi\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Rumi<\/span><\/a><span>&#8216;s poems, by Coleman Barks<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>Image:\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<span>Axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum, a neotenic salamander.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-rumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}