{"id":2293,"date":"2010-05-02T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T08:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2010-05-02T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T08:30:05","slug":"ever-heard-of-wabi-sabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of wabi-sabi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across a new phrase: wabi-wabi. It&#8217;s a wonderful concept that has been defined as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the \t\tJapanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in  nature, of \t\taccepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It&#8217;s simple,  slow, and \t\tuncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Wabi-sabi is flea  markets, \t\tnot warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It \t\tcelebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time,  weather, and \t\tloving use leave behind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">It reminds us that we are all but transient  beings on \t\tthis planet-that our bodies as well as the material world around us  are in the \t\tprocess of returning to the dust from which we came. Through  wabi-sabi, we \t\tlearn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of  time \t\tthey represent.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information <a href=\"http:\/\/nobleharbor.com\/tea\/chado\/WhatIsWabi-Sabi.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across a new phrase: wabi-wabi. It&#8217;s a wonderful concept that has been defined as follows: &#8220;Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It&#8217;s simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}