{"id":1249,"date":"2006-12-05T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:38:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:38:01","slug":"close-up-for-one-deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Close Up for One Deep Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Photos-20from-20old-20PC-20058.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/Photos-20from-20old-20PC-20058-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">the lotus unfurls<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">beneath stained-glass wings; dragon<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">grasping the sacred<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">This week&#8217;s prompt for <a href=\"http:\/\/onedeepbreath.blogspot.com\/\">One Deep Breath<\/a> is Close Up (Close, Closer, Closest). Writing haiku is much more difficult than it would seem at first glance, but I so enjoy the challenge and the stumbling steps I&#8217;m taking with it. I may just add a haiku *how-to* book to my Xmas list this year. Santa always appreciates a suggestion or two! Also on my list this year is a macro lens for my camera; I&#8217;ve offered to pitch in to Santa&#8217;s fund with the extra $ I make teaching&#8230; we&#8217;ll see if Santa is feeling very generous this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I&#8217;ve posted this dragonfly and lotus pic before, but it is one of my absolute favorites &#8211; a happy accident from beside the pond &#8211; and especially nice to look at now that the fish and plants are asleep for the season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the lotus unfurlsbeneath stained-glass wings; dragongrasping the sacred This week&#8217;s prompt for One Deep Breath is Close Up (Close, Closer, Closest). Writing haiku is much more difficult than it would seem at first glance, but I so enjoy the challenge and the stumbling steps I&#8217;m taking with it. I may just add a haiku *how-to* &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Close Up for One Deep Breath<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}