{"id":252,"date":"2010-12-17T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=252"},"modified":"2010-12-17T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:45:21","slug":"friday-poetry-snowshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Snowshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Snowshine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why does the snow blow?<br \/>\nI think it is to slow me<br \/>\nSunshine will clear the way<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>I decided today to try to do a purer form of haiku than I usually do.\u00a0 The meter is 5-7-5, and the subject is <em>supposed<\/em> to be nature.\u00a0 Most of the time I&#8211;and I think most other Americans, at least&#8211;use the form for other subjects.\u00a0 Technically, such other poems are called senry\u016b,\u00a0 Actually, the distinctions go a bit deeper than that; <a title=\"All about senry\u016b\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senryu\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia&#8217;s article<\/a> is helpful on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re curious, by the way, it snowed last night.\u00a0 Thus, the inspiration for today&#8217;s poem.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week.\u00a0 See you Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowshine Why does the snow blow? I think it is to slow me Sunshine will clear the way **** I decided today to try to do a purer form of haiku than I usually do.\u00a0 The meter is 5-7-5, and the subject is supposed to be nature.\u00a0 Most of the time I&#8211;and I think most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}