{"id":88651,"date":"2012-05-15T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88651\/wonderful-oriental-wednesday-2\/"},"modified":"2012-05-15T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T00:00:42","slug":"wonderful-oriental-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88651\/wonderful-oriental-wednesday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Oriental Wednesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=CPCBanner.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/CPCBanner.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Banner\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">Welcome to Wonderful Oriental Wednesday (WOW)! \u00a0This week we&#8217;re waxing oriental with <\/font><font color=\"#800080\">Asian beauty and culture<\/font><font color=\"#999999\"> as our theme.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">Recommended style is the<\/font><font color=\"#800080\"> Haiku, a Japanese format of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables used primarily for nature topics. \u00a0When used for subjects involving people the same format is called the Senryu<\/font><font color=\"#999999\">.<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Here are some pics, quotes and Haikus to inspire you!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">Please also to <\/font><font color=\"#800080\">read and comment on the other posts, and to bring a friend to share<\/font><font color=\"#999999\"> our modest blog challenge!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><font color=\"#999999\">Also,<\/font><font color=\"#800080\"> if this blog pleases you, click on the heart at the top to indicate your feeling<\/font><font color=\"#999999\">.-Bob\/Scotorum<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Topic and image selection by Piper Ellie.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=12_himeji_castle_-_copia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/12_himeji_castle_-_copia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HimejiCastle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=blacktext.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/blacktext.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blacktext\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=japanese_garden_royal_roads_university_british_columbia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/japanese_garden_royal_roads_university_british_columbia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"japanese_garden_royal_roads_university_british_columbia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=Sun-Tzu-Quotes-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/Sun-Tzu-Quotes-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SunTsuQuotes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=cherryBlossom003.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/cherryBlossom003.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CherryBlossoms\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=LaoTzuQuote.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/LaoTzuQuote.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LaoTzuQuote\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=OrientalView.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/OrientalView.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"OrientalView\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=buddhaquoteellie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/buddhaquoteellie.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"buddhaquoteellie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=HaikuSnail.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/HaikuSnail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HaikuSnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/?action=view&amp;current=streamingwater.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/WednesdaySunday\/streamingwater.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Waterfall\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wonderful Oriental Wednesday (WOW)! \u00a0This week we&#8217;re waxing oriental with Asian beauty and culture as our theme. Recommended style is the Haiku, a Japanese format of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables used primarily for nature topics. \u00a0When used for subjects involving people the same format is called the Senryu. Here are some pics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}