{"id":22213,"date":"2013-09-12T21:36:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22213"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:55:07","slug":"gong-fu-cha-diary-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22213","title":{"rendered":"Gong fu cha diary:  Second Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>Beginning, slowly, to get the hang of the chinese way of tea. \u00a0Yes, it requires a bunch of beginning moves like warming the pot, the pitcher, the cup and rinsing the leaves after that. \u00a0It also involves a quick count to pour the water on the tea, then over the pot, then pour the tea out of the pot.<\/p>\n<p>But. \u00a0The tea tastes great and you can keep using the same tea leaves for at least six infusions. \u00a0That means after the first pot, the next five are straight forward and one pot of tea can last almost a day.<\/p>\n<p>Still a long way from having the nuances, especially when it comes to buying the tea itself, but that will come with time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Harvest Moon Beginning, slowly, to get the hang of the chinese way of tea. \u00a0Yes, it requires a bunch of beginning moves like warming the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gong fu cha diary:  Second Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35626,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions\/35626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}