{"id":504,"date":"2023-03-21T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=504"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:57:43","slug":"rustam-and-tahmina-from-firdausis-shahnama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Rustam and Tahmina, from Firdausi\u2019s Shahnama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behind the curtain there was a face like a moon<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Like the shining sun, full of color and scent<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Rustam spoke to her, asked her name:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>\u2018What are you seeking in the darkness of night? What is your desire?\u2019<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>\u2018Tahmina is my name\u2019 was how she replied.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>\u2018Sorrow has cut my heart in two.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Daughter of the king of Samangan am I, and<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>From the stock of leopards and panthers.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>There is none so royal in the whole world as me \u2013<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Beneath the wheel of the firmament there are very few like me.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>No man has ever seen me beyond the curtain<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>No man has ever heard<\/span> my voice.\u2019<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behind the curtain there was a face like a moon\u00a0Like the shining sun, full of color and scent\u00a0Rustam spoke to her, asked her name:\u00a0\u2018What are you seeking in the darkness of night? What is your desire?\u2019\u00a0\u2018Tahmina is my name\u2019 was how she replied.\u00a0\u2018Sorrow has cut my heart in two.\u00a0Daughter of the king of Samangan am … Continue reading “Rustam and Tahmina, from Firdausi\u2019s Shahnama”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[6],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":6,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"rimtouaghed04","display_name":"Rim Touaghed","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58e17d1118eae3b2c5859a39cbea129dc24e4ec758d883a03934593e02ba33d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Touaghed","first_name":"Rim","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}