{"id":196,"date":"2016-01-21T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:34:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:34:20","slug":"a-little-rumi-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"A Little Rumi Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happened to be thumbing thru&#8217; Delicious Laughter today in search of &#8216;Two Ways of Coming Down a Mountain&#8217; and also re-discovered &#8216;When \u00a0a Madman Smiles at You&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>With some judicious editing:<\/p>\n<p>Physician to assistant: &#8216;Can you administer some of that medicine to me?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Assistant: &#8216;But that medicine&#8217;s for crazy people; you hardly need it yourself&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Physician: &#8216;Yesterday a madman turned and smiled at me, arched his eyebrows, and touch my hand. He would hardly have done that if he hadn&#8217;t recognized in me someone congenial &#8212; not so different from himself.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Those to whom you&#8217;re drawn share some common consciousness. Also watch who avoids you &#8212; it may teach you something of your inner qualities.<\/p>\n<p>Rumi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happened to be thumbing thru&#8217; Delicious Laughter today in search of &#8216;Two Ways of Coming Down a Mountain&#8217; and also re-discovered &#8216;When \u00a0a Madman Smiles at You&#8217;. With some judicious editing: Physician to assistant: &#8216;Can you administer some of that medicine to me?&#8217; Assistant: &#8216;But that medicine&#8217;s for crazy people; you hardly need it yourself&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}