{"id":1893,"date":"2007-07-18T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/07\/how-lovely\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:37","slug":"how-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/07\/how-lovely.html","title":{"rendered":"How lovely"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/Rp455Rjsy2I\/AAAAAAAAAQw\/fsIZN9g-PFM\/s1600-h\/issa.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/Rp455Rjsy2I\/AAAAAAAAAQw\/fsIZN9g-PFM\/s400\/issa.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><em>How lovely!<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>Through the torn paper screen,<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>the Milky Way.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Issa<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>(translated by Michael Sierchio &amp; John Tarrant)<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-1168228043771309628?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How lovely! 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