{"id":860,"date":"2010-06-23T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/06\/23\/tuesday-night-hegira\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T04:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:16:00","slug":"tuesday-night-hegira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/06\/23\/tuesday-night-hegira\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – hegira"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have a calendar that displays a new word every day. Some are obscure, some are commonplace. Like many things\u00a0 in my life, I sometimes like to find\u00a0 significance\u00a0 in the word the calendar has chosen for my day. Yesterday’s ‘s word was Hegira.. a word I ghenvt heard since Joni Mitchell went from folk to Jazz in the 70’s. I ave to admit I only sort of knew the mean ing of the word. I knew it pertained to a journey.. <\/p>\n

Here’s what the calendar told me iabotu the word.

he\u00b7gi\u00b7ra<\/b>
Variant(s): also he\u00b7ji\u00b7ra<\/b> ..hi-\u02c8<\/span>j\u012b-r\u0259, \u02c8<\/span>he-j\u0259-r\u0259..<\/span><\/div>\n

Function: noun<\/p>\n

<\/i> <\/div>\n

Etymology: the Hegira,<\/i> flight of Muhammad from Mecca in a.d.<\/i> 622, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic hijra,<\/i> literally, departure<\/div>\n
Date: 1753<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

:<\/b> a journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation<\/p>\n

I was vaguely familiar with the first definition. The flight of the Prophet from Mecca. The second definition was new to me .. It felt meaningful to me.. I am looking for an escape of sorts.. not\u00a0 from danger.. but from the undesirable state when my efforts are not lining up with my passion and life;s mission.. <\/p>\n

Reading that..it doesn’t make much sense.. but it makes sense inside me .. which is what counts.. <\/p>\n

Anyway.. I found the word a good portent..
So.. now what ? <\/p>\n

nite folks.. nite sam <\/p>\n

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We have a calendar that displays a new word every day. Some are obscure, some are commonplace. Like many things\u00a0 in my life, I sometimes like to find\u00a0 significance\u00a0 in the word the calendar has chosen for my day. Yesterday’s ‘s word was Hegira.. a word I ghenvt heard since Joni Mitchell went from folk … Continue reading Tuesday night – hegira<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}