{"id":11221,"date":"2015-12-06T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T23:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2015-12-06T23:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:48:46","slug":"aliasghar-rahimi-and-the-roohafza-ensemble-bring-us-some-rumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2015\/12\/aliasghar-rahimi-and-the-roohafza-ensemble-bring-us-some-rumi.html","title":{"rendered":"Aliasghar Rahimi and the Roohafza Ensemble Channels Some Rumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/12\/Rumi.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/12\/Rumi-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Rumi\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11222\"><\/a><br>\nBecause sometimes Rumi is all the inspiration you need. 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