{"id":1528,"date":"2014-01-02T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T18:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogawithadrien.wpengine.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2014-01-04T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:47:35","slug":"welcome-2014-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/welcome-2014-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome 2014, Welcome It All!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of welcoming in the new year and opening ourselves up to a new experience- I thought I would post one of my favorite poems from Rumi. Don't make fun! This one is a classic. I read it each month and still bring it to public classes when the lightning strikes.<\/p>\n<p>This one goes out to all of you! But especially my <strong>REBOOTERS<\/strong>! As you hit the mat, embrace the challenge, embrace the experience, \u00a0be grateful for what comes and embrace it all!<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE GUEST HOUSE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This being human is a guest house.<br \/>\nEvery morning a new arrival.<\/p>\n<p>A joy, a depression, a meanness,<br \/>\nsome momentary awareness comes<br \/>\nas an unexpected visitor.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome and entertain them all!<br \/>\nEven if they are a crowd of sorrows,<br \/>\nwho violently sweep your house<br \/>\nempty of its furniture,<br \/>\nstill, treat each guest honorably.<br \/>\nHe may be clearing you out<br \/>\nfor some new delight.<\/p>\n<p>The dark thought, the shame, the malice.<br \/>\nmeet them at the door laughing and invite them in.<\/p>\n<p>Be grateful for whatever comes.<br \/>\nbecause each has been sent<br \/>\nas a guide from beyond.<\/p>\n<p>-- Jelaluddin Rumi,<br \/>\ntranslation by Coleman Barks<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1537\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogawithadrien.wpengine.com\/welcome-2014-welcome\/black-and-white-yoga-in-boston\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1537\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1537\" alt=\"photo by, Stacey Leece Vukelj\" src=\"http:\/\/yogawithadrien.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/black-and-white-yoga-in-boston-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by, Stacey Leece Vukelj<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of welcoming in the new year and opening ourselves up to a new experience- I thought I would post one of my favorite poems from Rumi. Don't make fun! This one is a classic. I read it each month and still bring it to public classes when the lightning strikes. This one goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264],"yst_prominent_words":[1218,699,1222,1219,1217,1106,1221,1220],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-rumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogawithadriene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}