{"id":382,"date":"2010-11-11T21:40:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2010-11-11T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T02:41:17","slug":"secret-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Secret Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovers find secret places<br \/>\ninside this violent world<br \/>\nwhere they make transactions<br \/>\nwith beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Reason says, Nonsense.<br \/>\nI have walked and measured the walls here.<br \/>\nThere are no places like that.<\/p>\n<p>Love says, There are.<\/p>\n<p>Reason sets up a market<br \/>\nand begins doing business.<br \/>\nLove has more hidden work.<\/p>\n<p>Hallaj steps away from the pulpit<br \/>\nand climbs the stairs of the gallows.<\/p>\n<p>Lovers feel a truth inside themselves<br \/>\nthat rational people keep denying.<\/p>\n<p>It is reasonable to say, Surrender<br \/>\nis just an idea that keeps people from leading their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Love responds, No. This thinking<br \/>\nis what is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Using language obscures<br \/>\nwhat Shams came to give.<\/p>\n<p>Every day the sun rises<br \/>\nout of low word-clouds<br \/>\ninto burning silence.<br \/>\n\u2014Rumi, from &#8220;Bridge to the Soul&#8221; by Coleman Barks<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-382\" data-postid=\"382\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-382 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. Reason says, Nonsense. I have walked and measured the walls here. There are no places like that. Love says, There are. Reason sets up a market and begins doing business. Love has more hidden work. Hallaj steps away from the pulpit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-notes","category-inspiration","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hctF-6a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swirlingpetals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}