{"id":28634,"date":"2013-06-01T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=28634"},"modified":"2013-06-01T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:19:07","slug":"the-13-most-beautiful-things-in-the-world-my-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/the-13-most-beautiful-things-in-the-world-my-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13 Most Beautiful Things in the World: My Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of days ago, my friend Mher Krikorian (@krikOrianm<\/a>) asked on Twitter: \u201cWhat is the most beautiful thing in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

My fingers immediately went to my keyboard to answer, then I got thinking there would be so many more than could be listed in 140 characters.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t notice any replies, at least on the timeline Mher and I share.<\/p>\n

I have been mulling it over since and kept adding to the list. There are so many beautiful things.<\/p>\n

It was a good exercise to get away from all the news of violence and drums of war and focus on appreciation.<\/p>\n

My immediate thought went to places, but although well traveled, it would be presumptuous in such a large universe.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the \u201cthings\u201d that for me are the most beautiful in the world:<\/p>\n

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  1. Kindness<\/li>\n
  2. Generosity of spirit and largesse<\/li>\n
  3. A smile<\/li>\n
  4. The love and protection of siblings<\/li>\n
  5. The love given and returned to the special one<\/li>\n
  6. Books<\/li>\n
  7. Birdsong<\/li>\n
  8. The sun<\/li>\n
  9. Nature<\/li>\n
  10. The sea<\/li>\n
  11. Pink Floyd<\/li>\n
  12. My home<\/li>\n
  13. Good health<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I could go on and on\u2026<\/p>\n

    What do you consider the most beautiful thing in the world?<\/p>\n

    I have disabled comments on Mich Caf\u00e9 due to the large amount of advertising spam. But you can contribute your \u201cmost beautiful things\u201d on Facebook or Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    MICH CAFE: A friend threw out the challenge on Twitter and it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a few days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":28636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,90,482,5,187],"tags":[16690,17367,16517,17285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28640,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions\/28640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}