{"id":513,"date":"2006-06-11T20:11:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T03:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-08-18T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T03:04:59","slug":"sound-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Sound of flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flower_Communion\">Flower Celebration<\/a> at First Unitarian in New Bedford today (sometimes inaccurately called a &#8220;flower communion,&#8221; but out of respect for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/clf\/quest\/2002-06.html#beland\">Norbert Capek&#8217;s original intent<\/a> I&#8217;ll refer to it as a Flower Celebration). Everett Hoagland, the former poet laureate of New Bedford, pointed me towards a haiku by Basho that, for me, beautifully explains how a Flower Celebration continues to influence us long after the ritual is over:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the temple bell stops<br \/>\nbut the sound keeps coming<br \/>\nout of the flowers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our Flower Celebration at First Unitarian in New Bedford today (sometimes inaccurately called a &#8220;flower communion,&#8221; but out of respect for Norbert Capek&#8217;s original intent I&#8217;ll refer to it as a Flower Celebration). Everett Hoagland, the former poet laureate of New Bedford, pointed me towards a haiku by Basho that, for me, beautifully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[294,557,212],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","tag-basho","tag-everett-hoagland","tag-flower-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8133,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}