{"id":1783,"date":"2013-11-23T22:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2013-11-23T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:32:50","slug":"dogfight-and-palindrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2013\/11\/dogfight-and-palindrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogfight and Palindrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a poem: \u72ac\u54ac\u5408 &#8220;A Dogfight&#8221; by \u611a\u4f5b (&#8220;Dumb Buddha&#8221;, an anonymous poet),  c. 1800:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u6900 \u6900 \u6900 \u6900 \u4ea6 \u6900 \u6900<br \/>\n\u4ea6 \u4ea6 \u6900 \u6900 \u53c8 \u6900 \u6900\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u591c \u6697 \u4f55 \u758b \u9813 \u4e0d \u5206<br \/>\n\u7d42 \u59cb \u53ea \u805e \u6900 \u6900 \u6900\u3000\u3000<\/p>\n<p>Woof! woof! woof! woof! and woof woof!<br \/>\nAnd! And woof woof! and woof woof!<br \/>\nThe night is dark, don&#8217;t know how many there are<br \/>\nFrom dusk to dawn, I hear only woof woof woof!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another poem: \u5efb\u6587 &#8220;Palindrome&#8221; by \u52a0\u4fdd\u8336\u5143\u6210 (Motonari Pumpkin), also c. 1800:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u3078\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d<br \/>\n\u3078\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d<br \/>\n\u3078\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d<br \/>\n\u3078\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d<br \/>\n\u3078\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d\u309d<\/p>\n<p>Fart fart fart fart fart<br \/>\nFart fart fart fart fart fart fart<br \/>\nFart fart fart fart fart<br \/>\nFart fart fart fart fart fart fart<br \/>\nFart fart fart fart fart fart fart\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adopted from David Pollack, &#8220;Kyoshi: Japanese &#8216;Wild Poetry'&#8221;, <em>Journal of Asian Studies<\/em> 38.3 (May 1979). Matt already <a href=\"http:\/\/no-sword.jp\/blog\/2005\/06\/disappointment.html\">posted<\/a> about the second poem; I shouldn&#8217;t have expected less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a poem: \u72ac\u54ac\u5408 &#8220;A Dogfight&#8221; by \u611a\u4f5b (&#8220;Dumb Buddha&#8221;, an anonymous poet), c. 1800: \u6900 \u6900 \u6900 \u6900 \u4ea6 \u6900 \u6900 \u4ea6 \u4ea6 \u6900 \u6900 \u53c8 \u6900 \u6900\u3000\u3000 \u591c \u6697 \u4f55 \u758b \u9813 \u4e0d \u5206 \u7d42 \u59cb \u53ea \u805e \u6900 \u6900 \u6900\u3000\u3000 Woof! woof! woof! woof! and woof woof! And! And woof woof! and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}