{"id":266,"date":"2006-05-19T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2006-07-19T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T19:52:38","slug":"another-veiw-of-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Another veiw of Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=980CE1D9143FF933A05757C0A9609C8B63\">A fascinating piece<\/a> in a recent New York Times about what is considered Iran&#8217;s national poem the Shahnameh which is for Iran what Homer&#8217;s Odyssey is to Greece.<\/p>\n<p>One notable line from an author who was himself a Muslim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Damn this world, damn this time, damn this fate,<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0That uncivilized Arabs have come to make me Muslim&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating piece in a recent New York Times about what is considered Iran&#8217;s national poem the Shahnameh which is for Iran what Homer&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}