{"id":2345,"date":"2024-09-15T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2024-09-15T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T22:11:05","slug":"what-a-pity-for-such-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"What A Pity For Such A Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,<br \/>\nand that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.<\/p>\n<p>Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,<br \/>\nyet submits in its awakening.<\/p>\n<p>Pity the nation that raises not its voice<br \/>\nsave when it walks in a funeral,<br \/>\nboasts not except among its ruins,<br \/>\nand will rebel not save when its neck is laid<br \/>\nbetween the sword and the block.<\/p>\n<p>Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,<br \/>\nwhose philosopher is a juggler,<br \/>\nand whose art is the art of patching and mimicking<\/p>\n<p>Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,<br \/>\nand farewells him with hooting,<br \/>\nonly to welcome another with trumpeting again.<\/p>\n<p>Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years<br \/>\nand whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43268 lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/beautytipsinurdu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/What-a-pity-for-such-a-nation.gif\" alt=\"What A Pity For Such A Nation\" width=\"793\" height=\"2133\" data-src=\"https:\/\/beautytipsinurdu.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/What-a-pity-for-such-a-nation.gif\" data-eio-rwidth=\"793\" data-eio-rheight=\"2133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pity the nation divided into fragments,<br \/>\neach fragment deeming itself a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015 Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.islamicgathering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}