{"id":10432,"date":"2013-01-03T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:09:59","slug":"homage-to-basho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10432","title":{"rendered":"homage to Basho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Jane Hershfield&#8217;s illuminating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heart-Haiku-Kindle-Single-ebook\/dp\/B0057IYMF4\">The Heart of Haiku<\/a> (an Amazon e-book about Basho that costs just $0.99), it is hard to resist writing some lines in modest imitation of the master. For example,<\/p>\n<p>Even as it rains<br \/>\nbeating the roof, windshield drenched<br \/>\nI\u2019m missing the rain<\/p>\n<p>Fading autumn sky<br \/>\nswallows the swaying branches<br \/>\nsilhouettes on black<\/p>\n<p>Arduously mixed&#8211;<br \/>\nlines, blocks of color, faces<br \/>\nwet scraps under foot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Jane Hershfield&#8217;s illuminating The Heart of Haiku (an Amazon e-book about Basho that costs just $0.99), it is hard to resist writing some lines in modest imitation of the master. For example, Even as it rains beating the roof, windshield drenched I\u2019m missing the rain Fading autumn sky swallows the swaying branches silhouettes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}