{"id":5603,"date":"2021-08-24T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T04:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2021-08-24T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T04:48:44","slug":"paulo-coelho-the-alchemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/24\/paulo-coelho-the-alchemist\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulo Coelho: The Writer Who Believes That Dreams Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paulo Coelho was born on this day. Did you know the Rumi of our times was a lyricist as well?<\/p>\n

His most famous book was The Alchemist<\/em> with sales of over 150 million copies worldwide.<\/p>\n

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During his adolescence he was sent to an asylum so that he would give up his writing dream and even though he attempted to make a career out of law, he dropped out of the rat race, living a hippie life and traveling widely.<\/p>\n

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He began working as a songwriter and dabbled in many creative careers. He was even incarcerated by the military government in Brazil for some time.<\/p>\n

\"\"He began a songwriting career that was interrupted by his sudden awakening to write and follow his dreams. The Alchemist<\/em> was picked up by an unknown publisher and later Harper Collins. A strong thread of Sufism and pantheism runs through his fiction and non-fiction books.<\/p>\n

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Happy b’day Paulo Coelho!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paulo Coelho was born on this day. Did you know the Rumi of our times was a lyricist as well? His most famous book was The Alchemist with sales of over 150 million copies worldwide. During his adolescence he was sent to an asylum so that he would give up his writing dream and even … Continue reading “Paulo Coelho: The Writer Who Believes That Dreams Come True”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[476],"tags":[540,541],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-1sn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4503,"url":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/01\/thats-the-word-for-it-ineffable\/","url_meta":{"origin":5603,"position":0},"title":"That's the Word for It- Ineffable","date":"February 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a\u00a0new column every week where we talk about one word that catches our fancy. Ineffable is an adjective that deals with ideas that shouldn't be expressed. This includes uttering the name of gods such as the name of God in Judaism (YHWH) and arch-villains like\u00a0Lord Voldemort of the Harry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "That's the word for it"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/instascribe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ineffable.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}