{"id":303,"date":"2005-08-05T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T00:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2007-12-27T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T22:41:11","slug":"travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading a translation of travel writing and other prose by Basho, 17th C. Japanese writer. He writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, for those who set their heart on the spiritual arts and follow the four seasons, writing is as inexhaustible as the sands on the beach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He wrote this in a <em>haibun<\/em> about a painting, and he decides that the writers of his day do not measure up to the master poets of the past: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The joy of continuing their truth is difficult for those today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading a translation of travel writing and other prose by Basho, 17th C. Japanese writer. He writes: Now, for those who set their heart on the spiritual arts and follow the four seasons, writing is as inexhaustible as the sands on the beach. He wrote this in a haibun about a painting, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[294,250],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sauntering","tag-basho","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}