{"id":752,"date":"2014-02-20T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2014-02-20T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:12:13","slug":"john-cages-mushroom-haiku-mesosticized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/2014\/02\/20\/john-cages-mushroom-haiku-mesosticized\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cage&#8217;s Mushroom Haiku&#8230; mesosticized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"background:#ffdd55\">                    Bas<strong>H<\/strong>o once\r\n                 wrote <strong>A<\/strong> poem:\r\n            \"Matsutake <strong>I<\/strong>a\r\n               shiranu <strong>K<\/strong>o no ha no\r\n               hebarits<strong>U<\/strong>ku\"<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"background:#ffdd55\">                   Blyt<strong>H<\/strong>e\r\n                     tr<strong>A<\/strong>nslated\r\n                       <strong>I<\/strong>t\r\n                     li<strong>K<\/strong>e this:\r\n     \"The leaf of some <strong>U<\/strong>nknown tree is<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"background:#ffdd55\">    sticking on the mus<strong>H<\/strong>room\".\r\n                  The j<strong>A<\/strong>panese composer\r\n                  Takem<strong>I<\/strong>tsu rephrased it as\r\n    \"Mushroom does not <strong>K<\/strong>now that leaf is sticking on it\".\r\n                  Event<strong>U<\/strong>ally<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"background:#ffdd55\">                     Jo<strong>H<\/strong>n\r\n                      C<strong>A<\/strong>ge\r\n                    dec<strong>I<\/strong>ded to\r\n                     ma<strong>K<\/strong>e his own versions\r\n       spiced with his <strong>U<\/strong>nmistakable<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"background:#ffdd55\"><strong>                       H<\/strong>umour:\r\n                    \"Th<strong>A<\/strong>t that's unknown\r\n                     br<strong>I<\/strong>ngs mushroom and leaf together.\"\r\n              But he li<strong>K<\/strong>ed this one above all:\r\n     \"What leaf? What m<strong>U<\/strong>shroom?\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BasHo once wrote A poem: &#8220;Matsutake Ia shiranu Ko no ha no hebaritsUku&#8221; BlytHe trAnslated It liKe this: &#8220;The leaf of some Unknown tree is sticking on the musHroom&#8221;. The jApanese composer TakemItsu rephrased it as &#8220;Mushroom does not Know that leaf is sticking on it&#8221;. EventUally JoHn CAge decIded to maKe his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[152,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncage.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}