{"id":10678,"date":"2023-12-02T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=10678"},"modified":"2023-12-02T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T14:19:45","slug":"celebrating-the-wlbott-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=10678","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the WLBOTT Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UC#3, the celebrated WLBOTT Poet Laureate<\/strong>, offers his reflections on his good will tour of Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Kyoto- nice crisp weather, leaves in color, 17,000 well behaved Japanese students on field trips, our son [redacted] is tolerating us in a pleasant way.
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I am inspired to produce a haiku-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golden pagoda
Leaves turning dark crimson
Time for some sushi<\/p>\nUC#3<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Still trying to figure out difference between Buddhism, Zen and Sjintoism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Kyoto, there once was a lady named Ako
She liked to make a Japanese taco
She substituted roasted nori for the corn shell
And used raw tuna instead of beef done well
To complete the blasphemy, shishito instead of jalape\u00f1o<\/p>\nUC#3<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Journey of an Artist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

UC#3<\/strong> has been fascinated by both Twine <\/strong>and Poetry <\/strong>his entire life. We explore the evolution of his laureateness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Earliest Days<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As a Conflicted Youth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Searching for an Identity….<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Raging against the Corporate Fetters on his Artistry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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And Finally: Transcendence Through WLBOTT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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UC#3, the celebrated WLBOTT Poet Laureate, offers his reflections on his good will tour of Japan. In Kyoto- nice crisp weather, leaves in color, 17,000 well behaved Japanese students on field trips, our son [redacted] is tolerating us in a pleasant way. I am inspired to produce a haiku- Golden pagodaLeaves turning dark crimsonTime for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,35,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-of-the-elders","category-fine-arts","category-japan"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}