{"id":1353,"date":"2010-09-14T01:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2010-09-14T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:19:22","slug":"tuesday-poem-in-the-midst-of-the-plain-bassho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/tuesday-poem-in-the-midst-of-the-plain-bassho\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: &#8220;In the midst of the plain &#8230;&#8221; Bassho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the plain<br \/>\nsings the skylark<br \/>\nfree of all things<\/p>\n<p>Matsuo Bassho 1644-1694<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Haiku is such a popular form, both in New Zealand and internationally, that I felt it was time to include one as a Tuesday Poem. This poem, by the Japanese master, Matsuo Bassho, is a personal favourite, both because of its simplicity, but also the way it &#8220;speaks&#8221; to the deeper yearnings of our humanity. Despite that, it&#8217;s also very &#8220;zen&#8221;, which resonates with my martial arts background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the plain sings the skylark free of all things Matsuo Bassho 1644-1694 &#8212; Haiku is such a popular form, both in New Zealand and internationally, that I felt it was time to include one as a Tuesday Poem. This poem, by the Japanese master, Matsuo Bassho, is a personal favourite, both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}