{"id":10782,"date":"2015-06-30T22:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T05:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=10782"},"modified":"2015-07-01T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T18:01:03","slug":"10782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-things\/10782\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Things III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/when-japanese-mend-broken-objects.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/when-japanese-mend-broken-objects.jpg\" alt=\"when-japanese-mend-broken-objects\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10783\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/when-japanese-mend-broken-objects.jpg 403w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/when-japanese-mend-broken-objects-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/when-japanese-mend-broken-objects-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saw this on FB via a friend I have not seen for a long long time &#8230; Hope she&#8217;s okay &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, a ritual of tea ceremony with this tea bowl could only be exquisitely beautiful&#8230; as I recall the hostess teaching us that once we are served the bowl of tea, the proper manner is that we admire the design and artistry of the bowl politely and then turn it so that the most beautiful part faces the rest of the guests at the tea party &#8230; then take a sip &#8230; the broken fused with gold, the unique facet, that golden jagged &#8220;spark&#8221; is sure to face the world, stronger.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wabi-Sabi world, there is no perfection, never a completion, never an end &#8230; and<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s why<br \/>\nit&#8217;s beautiful,<br \/>\nin an imperfect perfection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this on FB via a friend I have not seen for a long long time &#8230; Hope she&#8217;s okay &#8230; By the way, a ritual of tea ceremony with this tea bowl could only be exquisitely beautiful&#8230; as I recall the hostess teaching us that once we are served the bowl of tea, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10782"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}