{"id":2364,"date":"2008-01-18T15:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wlcu.biz\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2008-01-18T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T15:22:01","slug":"125th-birthday-of-khalil-gibran-18-january-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/2364\/","title":{"rendered":"125th birthday of Khalil Gibran &#8211; 18 January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>January 6<sup>th<\/sup> 07 was \u00a0125th birthday of Khalil Gibran<\/strong>, born (Gibran Khalil Gibran) in Besharri, Lebanon\u00a0on January 6, 1883.\u00a0 Gibran&#8217;s prophetic writing\u00a0and visionary art\u00a0continue to inspire people of all cultural backgrounds, around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The World Lebanese Cultural Union, \u00a0has declared\u00a02008\u00a0a year to celebrate the life and work of our beloved Gibran.\u00a0 Here in Boston, the place were Gibran\u00a0grew up, we\u00a0are planning events and activities to honor him . These events will\u00a0take place during the year .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr David Abi Chaker , WLCU Boston Chapter President sent us on Gibran&#8217;s birthday an email with one of Gibran quotes that we would like to share with you :<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a &#8220;Gibran&#8221; website that you may find\u00a0interesting:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kahlil.org\">http:\/\/www.kahlil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 6th 07 was \u00a0125th birthday of Khalil Gibran, born (Gibran Khalil Gibran) in Besharri, Lebanon\u00a0on January 6, 1883.\u00a0 Gibran&#8217;s prophetic writing\u00a0and visionary art\u00a0continue to inspire people of all cultural backgrounds, around the world. &nbsp; The World Lebanese Cultural Union, \u00a0has declared\u00a02008\u00a0a year to celebrate the life and work of our beloved Gibran.\u00a0 Here in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wlcu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}