{"id":2727,"date":"2010-09-18T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T00:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2010-09-18T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T00:53:20","slug":"higanbana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/higanbana\/","title":{"rendered":"Higanbana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Lycoris radiata\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/091810lycoris4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/091810lycoris4-600x463.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lycoris radiata\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2728\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lycoris radiata was blooming this morning at the local botanical garden. This is allegedly called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanvisitor.com\/index.php?cID=364&#038;pID=1942\">the flower of the dead<\/a>&#8221; in Japan. It figures prominently in episode 18 of <strong><em>Shingu<\/em><\/strong>, in which Harumi and Moriguchi discuss events eleven years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Lycoris radiata in Shingu\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shingulycorisB05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shingulycorisB05-600x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lycoris radiata in Shingu\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2733\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last time I watched <strong><em>Shingu<\/em><\/strong>, I was surprised to realize that I was smiling and occasionally laughing. Laughter is social behavior; when I watch the Marx Brothers or read Terry Pratchett alone at home, I don&#8217;t crack a smile, no matter how much I enjoy the absurdities. The people in <strong><em>Shingu<\/em><\/strong> are alive for me in a way fictional characters rarely are.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>A couple of noteworthy links from the two Jonathans:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/09\/07\/notes-on-the-shinto-religion-and-anime\/\">Jonathan Tappan writes an introduction to Shintoism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com\/blog\/?p=1724\">Jonathan Clements provides context for <strong><em>Summer Wars<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgebunnies.com\/\">Ubu<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lycoris radiata was blooming this morning at the local botanical garden. This is allegedly called &#8220;the flower of the dead&#8221; in Japan. It figures prominently in episode 18 of Shingu, in which Harumi and Moriguchi discuss events eleven years earlier. The last time I watched Shingu, I was surprised to realize that I was smiling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/higanbana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Higanbana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[341,509],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery","tag-lycoris","tag-shingu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-HZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}