{"id":784,"date":"2007-07-13T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=784"},"modified":"2007-07-13T07:03:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T13:03:01","slug":"poetry-friday-leaving-you-with-a-little-basho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Leaving you with a little Bash\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/snow-in-cambridge.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/snow in cambridge1.jpg\" alt=\"Cambridge Common\"><\/a>The hardest part about leaving Cambridge, besides the excellent friends, and the ridiculously adorable preschoolers in my storytimes, and the great patrons I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of serving&#8230; besides all that, the hardest thing is that I feel like I&#8217;ve just barely experienced it at all. For most of the four years I&#8217;ve been here I&#8217;ve been working full-time, and getting my MLIS, and for a while there I had a part-time job in addition to the full-time gig. So, I&#8217;ve been busy. And now that I&#8217;m leaving, I&#8217;m suddenly aware of all this stuff I&#8217;ve never done here. I still feel like a recent arrival, not a proper Cantabridgian. And I&#8217;m a little sad about it. It makes me feel like&#8230; well, like this <a href=\"http:\/\/poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=178450\"><strong>haiku<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoregon.edu\/~kohl\/basho\/life.html\"><strong>Bash\u014d<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Kyoto,<br \/>\nhearing the cuckoo,<br \/>\nI long for Kyoto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like I&#8217;m already missing Cambridge, even though I haven&#8217;t actually left yet. Ah well. Maybe I&#8217;ll get better acquainted with Ithaca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest part about leaving Cambridge, besides the excellent friends, and the ridiculously adorable preschoolers in my storytimes, and the great patrons I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of serving&#8230; besides all that, the hardest thing is that I feel like I&#8217;ve just barely experienced it at all. For most of the four years I&#8217;ve been here [&hellip;]<\/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-784","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\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}