{"id":517,"date":"2009-05-17T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2009\/05\/the_first_cold_shower\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:42:11","slug":"the_first_cold_shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2009\/05\/the_first_cold_shower\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Cold Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago when researching haiku, I ran into this &#8220;Basho classic&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>the first cold shower<\/p>\n<p>even the monkey seems to want<\/p>\n<p>a little coat of straw<\/p>\n<p>I imagined a drawing that could go with this and Mom could calligraphy. After reading later about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_Macaque\">snow monkeys<\/a> of Japan, I ended up making this:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/snow-monkies-350.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/snow-monkies-thumb-300x198-350.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" alt=\"snow-monkies.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago when researching haiku, I ran into this &#8220;Basho classic&#8221;: the first cold shower even the monkey seems to want a little coat of straw I imagined a drawing that could go with this and Mom could calligraphy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2009\/05\/the_first_cold_shower\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}