{"id":1588,"date":"2010-01-05T23:17:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2010-01-05T23:17:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:17:55","slug":"poem-no-one-visits-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/poem-no-one-visits-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:   No one visits here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of the heavy snow-falls in some places this week (eg, <a href=\"http:\/\/normblog.typepad.com\/normblog\/2010\/01\/this-is-manchester.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cottonopolis\u00a0under cotton<\/a>), here is a poem by Japanese poet, Saigyo Hoshi (1118-1190):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No one visits here<br \/>\nIn the dark mountain hut<br \/>\nwhere I live alone.<br \/>\nBut for this sweet loneliness<br \/>\nit would be too bleak to bear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nSam Hamill (Editor and Translator) [1997]: <em>Only Companion: Japanese Poems of Love and Longing<\/em>.\u00a0 Boston, MA, USA:\u00a0 Shambhala, page 55.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of the heavy snow-falls in some places this week (eg, Cottonopolis\u00a0under cotton), here is a poem by Japanese poet, Saigyo Hoshi (1118-1190): No one visits here In the dark mountain hut where I live alone. But for this sweet loneliness it would be too bleak to bear. Reference: Sam Hamill (Editor and Translator) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2010","m01","d05","h23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}