{"id":100,"date":"2016-02-28T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/?p=100"},"modified":"2016-02-28T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T17:56:03","slug":"rumi-only-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/2016\/02\/28\/rumi-only-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumi &#8211; Only Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumi&#8217;s Poem &#8220;Only Breath&#8221;, which was written over 800 years ago, still has a lot of power when it&#8217;s words are read today.<\/p>\n<p>Read and Listen to &#8220;Only Breath&#8221; and answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Summarize it (in your own words).<\/li>\n<li>Do you like the poem &#8211; why or why not?<\/li>\n<li>In your life and\/or today&#8217;s society, is this poem relevant?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poetry by RUMI -- Only Breath\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZqAnIp5dMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu<br \/>\nBuddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion<\/p>\n<p>or cultural system. I am not from the East<br \/>\nor the West, not out of the ocean or up<\/p>\n<p>from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not<br \/>\ncomposed of elements at all. I do not exist,<\/p>\n<p>am not an entity in this world or in the next,<br \/>\ndid not descend from Adam and Eve or any<\/p>\n<p>origin story. My place is placeless, a trace<br \/>\nof the traceless. Neither body or soul.<\/p>\n<p>I belong to the beloved, have seen the two<br \/>\nworlds as one and that one call to and know,<\/p>\n<p>first, last, outer, inner, only that<br \/>\nbreath breathing human being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumi&#8217;s Poem &#8220;Only Breath&#8221;, which was written over 800 years ago, still has a lot of power when it&#8217;s words are read today. Read and Listen to &#8220;Only Breath&#8221; and answer the following questions: Summarize it (in your own words). Do you like the poem &#8211; why or why not? In your life and\/or today&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/2016\/02\/28\/rumi-only-breath\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rumi &#8211; Only Breath<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1503490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-9-homework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/whywelearnstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}