{"id":1101,"date":"2008-04-30T19:51:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1101"},"modified":"2008-12-28T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T03:21:05","slug":"to-write-it-all-down-would-take-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1101","title":{"rendered":"To write it all down would take years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is where I have been for the last week or so: http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/2008convention<\/p>\n<p>Baha&#8217;i World News Service is doing a great job of covering the International Baha&#8217;i Convention, and I highly recommend checking out their stories and pictures&#8230;it will give you a glimpse into this amazing process.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, evenings at the Convention Center tend to be pretty quiet, so I sat down for a moment to take off my heels and write a post.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen friends from around the world, I have interacted with and assisted delegates from more places than I can count, I&#8217;ve had a smile on my face for nearly a week now and I can&#8217;t help but keep smiling!  They are all so beautiful, and the atmosphere here is indescribable. <\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite moments was when over 1500 people from around the world circled around the Shrine of Baha&#8217;u&#8217;llah on the 9th Day of Ridvan.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/multimedia\/slideshow.php?storyid=628\">(pictures here)<\/a>  It gave me a better understanding of how global our Faith truly is&#8230;the sky was blue and perfect:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/2451958391\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2310\/2451958391_6dbeb6426d_t.jpg\" alt=\"Bahji\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the flowers were in bloom:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/2452799960\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/240\/2452799960_1b24807989_t.jpg\" alt=\"flowers in bloom at Bahji\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and everything was right with the world, in those moments.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Ridvan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is where I have been for the last week or so: http:\/\/news.bahai.org\/2008convention Baha&#8217;i World News Service is doing a great job of covering the International Baha&#8217;i Convention, and I highly recommend checking out their stories and pictures&#8230;it will give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-haifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}