{"id":1638,"date":"2009-04-10T00:06:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T06:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2009-04-10T00:07:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T06:07:07","slug":"poetry-friday-a-tiny-little-spring-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: A tiny little spring poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Snow<\/p>\n

(Photo: “First Snow” by Andrew Ross Phoenix<\/a>.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Hey. I’m keeping it very simple this week. I’m sharing a lovely little haiku that perfectly expresses my mood as I start to see little hints of green peeking out in the pauses between slushy snow showers. I hadn’t realized how starved my eyes have been for GREEN.<\/p>\n

Here’s Kobayashi Issa, translated by Robert Hass<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The snow is melting
\nand the village is flooded
\nwith children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-Up is being brought to you by the letter G, the number 4, and by Carol at Carol’s Corner<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo: “First Snow” by Andrew Ross Phoenix.) Hey. I’m keeping it very simple this week. I’m sharing a lovely little haiku that perfectly expresses my mood as I start to see little hints of green peeking out in the pauses between slushy snow showers. I hadn’t realized how starved my eyes have been for GREEN. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}