{"id":723,"date":"2011-09-27T12:13:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T18:15:02","slug":"ripened-in-ilence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/ripened-in-ilence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripened in Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A single word can brighten the face<br \/>\nof one who knows the value of words.<br \/>\nRipened in silence, a single word<br \/>\nacquires a great energy for work.<\/p>\n<p>War is cut short by a word,<br \/>\nand a word heals the wounds,<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s a word that changes<br \/>\npoison into butter and honey.<\/p>\n<p>Let a word mature inside yourself.<br \/>\nWithhold the unripened thought.<br \/>\nCome and understand the kind of word<br \/>\nthat reduces money and riches to dust.<\/p>\n<p>Know when to speak a word<br \/>\nand when not to speak at all.<br \/>\nA single word turns a universe of hell<br \/>\ninto eight paradises.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Way. Don&#8217;t be fooled<br \/>\nby what you already know. Be watchful.<br \/>\nReflect before you speak.<br \/>\nA foolish mouth can brand your soul.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus, say one last thing<br \/>\nabout the power of words\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nOnly the word &#8220;I&#8221;<br \/>\ndivides me from God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Yunus Emre, Poem 11 from <em>The Drop that Became the Sea<\/em><br \/>\nTranslated by Refik Algan and Kabir Helminski <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silence, a single word acquires a great energy for work. War is cut short by a word, and a word heals the wounds, and there&#8217;s a word that changes poison into butter and honey. Let a word mature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2549,594,538],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-poetry","tag-sufi","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->