{"id":54651,"date":"2017-04-09T18:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T18:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54651"},"modified":"2017-04-09T18:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T18:56:29","slug":"cherry-blossom-season-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54651","title":{"rendered":"Cherry blossom season 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; scitech &#038; artpo, two ways of seeing ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It is cherry blossom season in Japan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Cherry-blossoms-tablet-600-DQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"873\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Cherry-blossoms-tablet-600-DQ.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Cherry-blossoms-tablet-600-DQ-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The upper panel image above is from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2017\/04\/daily-chart-4\">Economist blog<\/a>, the lower from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awesomestories.com\/asset\/view\/Hiroshige-Evening-Cherry-Blossoms-Yoshiwara-Gate\"><strong>Hiroshige <\/strong>print<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the Economist piece, timeless:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HANAMI, the Japanese custom of contemplating the impermanence of life by gazing at the fleeting beauty of blossoming flowers, goes back a long way. \u201cThe Tale of Genji\u201d, a tenth-century masterpiece that is perhaps the world\u2019s first novel, devotes a chapter to the cherry-blossom festival staged in the emperor\u2019s great hall. Diarists have keenly chronicled the comings and goings of cherry blossoms for centuries\u2014records from Kyoto, the old capital, date back 1,200 years. This precious, ancient data set reveals a disturbing trend: in recent decades, the blossoms have emerged much sooner than they once did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and (continuing) in our own time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This precious, ancient data set reveals a disturbing trend: in recent decades, the blossoms have emerged much sooner than they once did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Header:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Japan\u2019s cherry blossoms are emerging increasingly early<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSubhead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Experts think climate change is to blame<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Early: <em>unh-uh<\/em>. Fleeting: <em>yes<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; scitech &#038; artpo, two ways of seeing ] . It is cherry blossom season in Japan: ** The upper panel image above is from an Economist blog, the lower from a Hiroshige print. From the Economist piece, timeless: HANAMI, the Japanese custom of contemplating the impermanence of life by gazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,661,526,154,739,758,1393,853,855,1,657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ceremonial","category-charles-cameron","category-japan","category-nature","category-quant-qualit","category-shinto","category-statistics","category-tao","category-uncategorized","category-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54671,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54651\/revisions\/54671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}