{"id":3436,"date":"2017-11-15T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:39:23","slug":"the-bahai-proofs-day-15-bahai-blogging-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/3436","title":{"rendered":"The Baha&#8217;i Proofs: Day 15 Baha&#8217;i Blogging Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another of the discoveries from my time at the Baha&#8217;i National Center (I think?). This one is something that I actually own. It is the 1929 edition of a book originally published in 1902, and was a standard introductory book to the Baha&#8217;i Faith for many years. It was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bahaikipedia.org\/M%C3%ADrz%C3%A1_Abu%27l-Fadl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirza Abu&#8217;l-Fadl<\/a> and translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/centenary.bahai.us\/photo\/abdul-baha-ali-kuli-khan-florence-breed-khan-home-saffa-vaffa-kinney-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Kuli Khan<\/a>, who is a fascinating person himself. I love old books, though I don&#8217;t collect them, and history is a passion of mine. I was especially struck by the paragraph about the lack of the application of the transliteration standard set by Shoghi Effendi. How fascinating to see how early in the Guardian&#8217;s ministry he was working to standardize the system of translation and word usage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9301-e1510878605648.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3437 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9301-e1510878605648-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9301-e1510878605648-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9301-e1510878605648-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9301-e1510878605648-749x999.jpg 749w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9301-e1510878605648.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9302-e1510878636791.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3438 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9302-e1510878636791-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9302-e1510878636791-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9302-e1510878636791-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9302-e1510878636791-749x999.jpg 749w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9302-e1510878636791.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another of the discoveries from my time at the Baha&#8217;i National Center (I think?). This one is something that I actually own. It is the 1929 edition of a book originally published in 1902, and was a standard introductory book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","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=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}