{"id":1060,"date":"2014-03-21T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T06:48:43","slug":"bamboo-shoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/bamboo-shoots\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo shoots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years have carved these slopes.<br \/>\nIt was around this time in March when<br \/>\nNorth wind tarried on, defying summer thirst<br \/>\nAnd a thousand shoots of green rejoiced.<!--more--><br \/>\nThey&#8217;d passed the test, and cried for joy, and raced uphill.<br \/>\nAnd we, who nurtured them, were about to shout<br \/>\nOur wildest greetings when the thought struck us:<br \/>\nTitled erudites in robes they&#8217;re not,<br \/>\nBut nonetheless, proud gracile barefeet<br \/>\nChildren thinned by drought and scarred by storms<br \/>\nWho volunteered to scale the heights<br \/>\nAnd scatter raging monsoon winds,<br \/>\nThough they bend and break in shadow.<br \/>\nSoon and gently, they will carpet the land<br \/>\nIn crimson fruit and golden grain from ridge to coast.<br \/>\nAnd yet we&#8217;re not even allowed to write their names.<\/p>\n<p>19 March 2014<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1061\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bamboo-grove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1061\" title=\"bamboo grove\" src=\"http:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bamboo-grove.jpg\" alt=\"bamboo grove\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bamboo-grove.jpg 960w, https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/bamboo-grove-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bamboo grove in some rarely visited Cordillera corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/junverzola\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Follow @junverzola<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years have carved these slopes.<br \/>\nIt was around this time of March when<br \/>\nNorth wind tarried on, defying summer thirst<br \/>\nAnd a thousand shoots of green rejoiced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8],"tags":[80,231,230,183],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-personal","tag-activism","tag-bamboo","tag-milestones","tag-non-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraia.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}