{"id":392,"date":"2008-03-11T17:50:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T23:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2008-03-11T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T23:50:28","slug":"a-tea-master-selects-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"A Tea Master Selects Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>44 bar steady 29.83 2mph WSW windchill 43<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent Moon of Winds<\/p>\n<p>The snow mass has begun to recede.\u00a0 Our north facing property retains snow longer than our neighbors, but the snow over the firepit area has shrunk below the top rail of the fence.\u00a0 The temperature today gives us the general trend, though we may have a &#8220;major snow event&#8221; next week.\u00a0 These late snows don&#8217;t last.<\/p>\n<p>The gardening season will begin soon and I&#8217;m ready to go to work.\u00a0 Check on my baby trees, finish the firepit, begin the permaculture planning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Had a break through on the Weber Collection tour.\u00a0 I will use the notion of a tea-master preparing a tea ceremony for guests unfamiliar with Japanese art and its long traditions.\u00a0 Together we will choose items that will give each of us a once in a lifetime experience together.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s wander through our collection of possible tea objects and decide what will work best.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Work is many small works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>44 bar steady 29.83 2mph WSW windchill 43 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent Moon of Winds The snow mass has begun to recede.\u00a0 Our north facing property retains snow longer than our neighbors, but the snow over the firepit area has shrunk below the top rail of the fence.\u00a0 The temperature today gives us the general trend, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Tea Master Selects Objects<\/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":[8,9],"tags":[4337,4351,329,333,118],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-great-work","tag-art","tag-garden","tag-japan","tag-tea","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}