{"id":7504,"date":"2009-04-20T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T08:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2015-02-21T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T08:59:18","slug":"happy-sadi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/happy-sadi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Sadi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nIranian people annually commemorate Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi (C. 1213-1291), one of the greatest figures of classical Persian literature, on April 21, which has been named Sadi Day.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/images\/news\/sadi.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Sadi Day\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Following is Maxim 34 from Sadi\u2019s Gulistan translated by Richard Francis Burton:<\/p>\n<p><em>When a sage comes in contact with fools, he must not expect to be honored, and if an ignorant man overcomes a sage in an oratorical contest, it is no wonder, because even a stone breaks a jewel.<\/p>\n<p>What wonder is there that the song<br \/>\nOf a nightingale ceases when imprisoned with a crow<\/p>\n<p>Or that a virtuous man under the tyranny of vagabonds<br \/>\nFeels affliction in his heart and is irate.<\/p>\n<p>Although a base stone may break a golden vase,<br \/>\nThe price of the stone is not enhanced nor of the gold lost.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian people annually commemorate Sheikh Muslih od-Din Sadi Shirazi (C. 1213-1291), one of the greatest figures of classical Persian literature, on April 21, which has been named Sadi Day. Following is Maxim 34 from Sadi\u2019s Gulistan translated by Richard Francis Burton: When a sage comes in contact with fools, he must not expect to be&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1061,7,9,17,19,20,21,22,23,26,29],"tags":[1080,1077,1076,1079,816,1078,1081,1083,1082],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-iran","category-culture","category-explore-iran-cities","category-iran","category-iran-history","category-iran-news","category-iran-provinces","category-iranmap-site","category-irans-cultural-heritage","category-persian-literature","category-photos-from-iran-2","tag-gulistan","tag-sadi","tag-sadi-day","tag-sadi-shirazi","tag-sadis-gulistan","tag-sheikh-muslih-od-din-sadi-shirazi","tag-1081","tag-1083","tag-1082","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7504"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}