{"id":1960,"date":"2014-04-08T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2014-04-08T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T05:54:49","slug":"napowrimo-day-8-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo Day 8: surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another everyday memory of one of my years in Himeji, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>surprises<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the reason you get up every day. The<\/p>\n<p>most ordinary bus or train trip transformed<\/p>\n<p>by one image, a different perspective.<\/p>\n<p>rainbows trapped in ice crystals on the roof of an<\/p>\n<p>old car. snow on a discarded car tyre a study in black and white.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a slice of sky caught in a drain,<\/p>\n<p>the joy of the unexpected mundane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>smell of a mandarine permeating the bus.<\/p>\n<p>a chance meeting with the student you call<\/p>\n<p><i>walnut<\/i> who gives you a little box of handmade<\/p>\n<p>chocolates <i>because<\/i> she says in her understated<\/p>\n<p>Japanese way<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I made too many<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another everyday memory of one of my years in Himeji, Japan. &nbsp; &nbsp; surprises &nbsp; It\u2019s the reason you get up every day. The most ordinary bus or train trip transformed by one image, a different perspective. rainbows trapped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}