{"id":58171,"date":"2015-07-08T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=58171"},"modified":"2015-07-07T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:28:15","slug":"wise-words-on-wednesday-joy-and-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/wise-words-on-wednesday-joy-and-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Joy and sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58172\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KahlilGibran.jpg\" alt=\"KahlilGibran\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KahlilGibran.jpg 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KahlilGibran-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KahlilGibran-600x465.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.\u00a0And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.\u00a0And how else can it be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.\u00a0Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter&#8217;s oven?\u00a0And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.\u00a0When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.\u00a0And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.\u00a0And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.\u00a0Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter&#8217;s oven?\u00a0And is not the lute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58173,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58171\/revisions\/58173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}