{"id":119,"date":"2009-03-25T06:42:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-06-02T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T23:11:22","slug":"back-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2009\/03\/25\/back-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_135\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135\" title=\"apollo_11_liftoff31\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/apollo_11_liftoff31.jpg\" alt=\"Lunar Module, descent stage, left behind on moon, top left\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lunar Module, descent stage, left behind on moon, top left<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Past the Kingdom of Silla, to the mountains of Lake Biwa, where Basho and Saigyo rested from their long journeys. Like all of Japan, the view of the lake has changed since Basho was interred at the Temple of Gichu-ji on its southern shore. Saigyo guided the Persona back to his great metaphor, the moon:<\/p>\n<p>In the mountains\u2019 deep<br \/>\nPlaces, the moon of the mind<br \/>\nResides in light serene:<br \/>\nMoon mirrors all things everywhere,<br \/>\nMind mirrors moon . . . in satori now.<\/p>\n<p>(Tr. William R. LaFleur)<\/p>\n<p>Basho too taught the\u00a0Persona\u00a0the oneness of his vision, a Vinegar Drinker in his own way:<\/p>\n<p>Four gates<br \/>\nAnd four different sects<br \/>\nSleep as one<br \/>\nUnder the bright moon.<\/p>\n<p>(Tr. Nobuyuki Yuasa)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past the Kingdom of Silla, to the mountains of Lake Biwa, where Basho and Saigyo rested from their long journeys. <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2009\/03\/25\/back-on-the-moon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[60,804,29,186,62,61,47,204,205],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic","tag-basho","tag-epic","tag-epic-poetry","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-japan","tag-lake-biwa","tag-saigyo","tag-tadanori","tag-zeami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}