{"id":22855,"date":"2022-12-04T15:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=22855"},"modified":"2022-12-04T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:21:59","slug":"did-you-know-that-mr-omar-khayyam-died-on-december-4-1131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/12\/04\/did-you-know-that-mr-omar-khayyam-died-on-december-4-1131\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that Mr. Omar Khayyam died on December 4, 1131?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/QuestionMark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22857\" width=\"252\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/QuestionMark.jpg 657w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/QuestionMark-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 85vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer died in  Neysh\u0101b\u016br on December 4, 1131. It was like this day, but 891 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be familiar with the English writer Edward FitzGerald&#8217;s translation of his  <em>Rob\u0101\u02bf\u012by\u0101t<\/em> [or \u201c<em>Quatrains<\/em>\u201d] in a now classical book, which is entitled the &#8220;<em>Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t of Omar Khayy\u00e1m<\/em>&#8221; (1859). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book cited above has been translated into several languages. Bambi is lucky to have a German translation of it, thanks to a precious gift from an aunt. To honour the memory and work of Mr. Oma Khayyam, she found an English song based on Khayyam&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Rubaiyat<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Words cannot die, especially if we honour them. Long live words. Long live poetry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat in song.\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ihGby4Tuhmg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/heart-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22858\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/heart-4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/heart-4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 138px) 85vw, 138px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer died in Neysh\u0101b\u016br on December 4, 1131. It was like this day, but 891 years ago. You may be familiar with the English writer Edward FitzGerald&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22859,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22855\/revisions\/22859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}