{"id":1399724,"date":"2015-11-25T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2015\/11\/25\/the-islamic-foursquare-garden-signified-the-four\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T08:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:51:06","slug":"the-islamic-foursquare-garden-signified-the-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/the-islamic-foursquare-garden-signified-the-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islamic foursquare garden signified the four&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Islamic foursquare garden signified the four quarters of the universe, with the four rivers of life intersecting at the garden\u2019s centre.<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;The Persians, and later Islam in its traditions, balance the lack of generosity by nature creating gardens using the reassuring colour of living green, the colour that became a sign for Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The garden enjoyed an interlocking complexity with architecture.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Tiled and well-ordered courtyards were symmetrically pre-occupied, representing transcendental purity and perfection, in direct contrast to mankind\u2019s and natures predictable imperfection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>http:\/\/www.thecultureconcept.com\/circle\/walking-a-labyrinth-chartres-cathedral-to-centennial-park<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Islamic foursquare garden signified the four quarters of the universe, with the four rivers of life intersecting at the garden\u2019s centre. &#8220;The Persians, and later Islam in its traditions, balance the lack of generosity by nature creating gardens using the reassuring colour of living green, the colour that became a sign for Islam. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[345,344,343],"views":758,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399725,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399724\/revisions\/1399725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}