{"id":367,"date":"2008-03-04T13:08:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-03-04T13:19:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:19:59","slug":"a-honu-for-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"A Honu for Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>30\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.97\u00a0 1mph W windchill 29<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Snow Moon<\/p>\n<p>Back to the MIA for the first time in almost\u00a0a month.\u00a0 Took Jennifer a Honu (green sea turtle) t-shirt for Dylan.\u00a0 Talked to Jennifer and Paula, picked up my mail-box stuff and went over to Kristine Harley&#8217;s office and checked out the Weber lecture by Matthew Welch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After that, I went upstairs and did a quick once over through the exhibit.\u00a0 Loved the Nara era Buddha, Hotei reaching toward the moon, the demon queller and the tiger, the Brine Maidens, the turtle kimono, the oribe tea-ware, the Edo paintings, some of the monochromatic stuff the name of which I can&#8217;t recall right now.\u00a0 I also thought the modern robes with ice-crack design, open book and colored lights patterns were great, too.\u00a0 Next work is to read the object labels I printed out and the catalog, then take tours with 2 or 3 docents doing the tours and at least one CIF guide, Kumiko Voller, so I can learn how to pronounce everything.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda&#8217;s pregnant.\u00a0 Saw Shiela, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the drive I&#8217;ve begun relistening to From Yao to Mao, the 5,000 year history of China.\u00a0 This history has lasted so long and has had\u00a0so many twists and turns, I find it hard to keep straight, so I&#8217;m hoping repetition will work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more interesting the second time through since I now have some context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.97\u00a0 1mph W windchill 29 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Snow Moon Back to the MIA for the first time in almost\u00a0a month.\u00a0 Took Jennifer a Honu (green sea turtle) t-shirt for Dylan.\u00a0 Talked to Jennifer and Paula, picked up my mail-box stuff and went over to Kristine Harley&#8217;s office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Honu for Dylan<\/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":[8,266],"tags":[264,326],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-world-history","tag-chinese","tag-japanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}