{"id":10540,"date":"2014-04-20T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2014-04-20T23:45:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:45:21","slug":"day-20-napowrimo-a-bit-of-haikupedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10540","title":{"rendered":"Day 20, NaPoWriMo, a bit of haikupedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the radio this morning came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/04\/20\/305162929\/japans-competitive-poets-know-how-to-turn-a-phrase\" title=\"Japan's Competitive Poets Know How to Turn a Phrase\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each spring, Japan is consumed by a contest for style of poetry called Senryu. The poems are just three spare lines about the trials and tribulations of daily life.<\/p>\n<p>April is National Poetry Month here in the United States. But in Japan, poetry is also big this time of year when a popular poetry contest sweeps the country. It offers modest prizes and absolutely no fame whatsoever. Entries are by pen name only, but the event is as closely watched as a celebrity sighting or a speech by the prime minister. Competitors use a style of verse that is virtually unknown outside Japan. Lucy Craft looked for rhyme and reason behind the country&#8217;s love affair with this special style of poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so it seems that if you go into hair-splitting, most of my collection of seventeen syllables are indeed Senryu and not Haiku. Perhaps I&#8217;ll use the correct term when trying to impress someone LOL. In the meantime you&#8217;re stuck with some haikupedia about Senryu, &#8217;cause that&#8217;s how I roll. (note that &#8220;&#8217;cause that&#8217;s how I roll&#8217; is five syllables. Go for it!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senry%C5%AB\" title=\"Senryu - wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Senryu<\/a> not Haiku<br \/>\nas I awoke this morning<br \/>\nI discovered truth<\/p>\n<p>Content matters not<br \/>\nonly the syllabic form<br \/>\nand the writer&#8217;s thought<\/p>\n<p>are senryu darker?<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t all poems observe the truth:<br \/>\nlife and us in it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the meantime you&#8217;re stuck with some haikupedia about Senryu, &#8217;cause that&#8217;s how I roll. (note that &#8220;&#8217;cause that&#8217;s how I roll&#8217; is five syllables. Go for it!) <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[63,64,65],"tags":[539,540,541],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku","category-haikupedia","category-napowrimo","tag-haiku","tag-haikupedia","tag-napowrimo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-2K0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}