{"id":2008,"date":"2012-11-24T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2012-11-23T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T14:41:22","slug":"the-ryokan-experience-a-haiku-or-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/11\/the-ryokan-experience-a-haiku-or-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ryokan Experience \u2013 A Few Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[JAMES]
Beautiful hotel
Surrounds fine sculpted garden
Feels like history.<\/p><\/div>

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[LUCY]
Strangely empty room;
Ascetic. But where’s my bed?
Fragrant tatami<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Japanese ryokan:
Pay much more; sleep on the floor.
Must be high culture.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Public bath, at night
With a women\u2019s football team
James is quite jealous<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tried to navigate
Steep stairs in slippy slippers.
Banged head on beam. Ouch.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I though, am right-sized
That\u2019s less fun with grumpy James
Laughing does not help<\/p><\/div>\n

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Honoured guest; kind host.
Shown how to use my chopsticks.
Perhaps I look dumb?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Breakfast of poached eggs
Soft poached, eaten with chopsticks
I yearn for Starbucks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fine Yukuta robe.
Worn at dinner after bath.
Dangling free \u2013 most strange.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I wear my robe wrong,
Kind hostess tells me (firmly)
“Like a corpse”. Stylish.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}