{"id":1369,"date":"2026-03-10T03:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:32:49","slug":"hua-yanjun-he-is-not-a-poem-by-marco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Hua Yanjun he is not &#8211; a poem by marco"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Hua Yanjun he is not.<br \/>a poem<br \/><br \/>Cherry Blossoms yes. <br \/>Sakura makes me pensive.<br \/>Songs and plants both.<br \/>And so does Abing&#8217;s China*<br \/><br \/>Takes me back to the Dogwoods of my childhood<br \/>Pink and Purple<br \/>Or blue to someones&#8217; eye maybe. <br \/><br \/>One guy tries to show<br \/>He&#8217;s culturally aware<br \/>Where it comes to China<br \/>So he founds a festival<br \/><br \/>He calls it MatsuriFest<br \/>Despite its translation as Festival Fest<br \/>Like an ATM machine, <br \/>Or automatic teller machine machine. <br \/>Not to mention that&#8217;s Japanese, not Chinese.<br \/><br \/>And I&#8217;ve never seen a Tanuki <br \/><br \/>*Refers to the 1996 book Musical Creativity in Twentieth Century China: <br \/>Abing, His Music, and Its Changing Meanings by Jonathan P.J. Stock<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hua Yanjun he is not.a poem Cherry Blossoms yes. Sakura makes me pensive.Songs and plants both.And so does Abing&#8217;s China* Takes me back to the Dogwoods of my childhoodPink and PurpleOr blue to someones&#8217; eye maybe. One guy tries to showHe&#8217;s culturally awareWhere it comes to ChinaSo he founds a festival He calls it MatsuriFestDespite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-mundane-or-sublime","category-music-and-stuff","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}