{"id":330,"date":"2007-01-03T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=330"},"modified":"2007-01-03T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:54:08","slug":"the-zahir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"The Zahir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading some books by Paulo Coelho including, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Alchemist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBy the river Piedra I sat down and wept\u00e2\u20ac\u2122  <\/p>\n<p>I have found his books a great inspiration written from the heart and I would certainly recommend them. The latest book of his I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reading is called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Zahir\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 which is all about love and what it means to follow your heart.  Below is a passage from this book on relationships and communication.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk any more, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather round a fire and tell stories\u00e2\u20ac?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading some books by Paulo Coelho including, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Alchemist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBy the river Piedra I sat down and wept\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 I have found his books a great inspiration written from the heart and I would certainly recommend them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}