{"id":1069,"date":"2009-03-31T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-03-31T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:24:53","slug":"enlightening-connection-with-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Enlightening: communion with ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a simple lamp shade<br \/>\nnow illuminates the stair landing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">made from oak sticks<br \/>\n(left over from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/l1004425.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">parquet floor installation<\/a>)<br \/>\nand a little mulberry paper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">standing in front of dad&#8217;s milling machine<br \/>\nmaking 32 (near) perfect cuts<br \/>\nfor 16 lap joints<br \/>\nprovided precious time to commune<br \/>\nwith his (tool and die maker) spirit<br \/>\nas well as his father&#8217;s (cabinet maker) spirit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">smell the oak shavings<br \/>\nand well oiled steel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">see<br \/>\nthe roots of the mighty oak<br \/>\nclawing the damp earth<br \/>\npaper drying on felts<br \/>\nin a far away land<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1070\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/l1004519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1070 aligncenter\" title=\"l1004519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/l1004519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/l1004519.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/l1004519-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the soul of the matter<br \/>\ncreate usefulness<br \/>\nmindfully<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a simple lamp shade now illuminates the stair landing made from oak sticks (left over from the parquet floor installation) and a little mulberry paper standing in front of dad&#8217;s milling machine making 32 (near) perfect cuts for 16 lap joints provided precious time to commune with his (tool and die maker) spirit as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-hand-made","category-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}