{"id":17391,"date":"2016-12-07T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-coastal-bindamas\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:01:55","slug":"writers-weir-coastal-bindamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-coastal-bindamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Coastal Bindamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aqua green with embossed kanji<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Beachcomber finds and nautical decor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Collector items of the commercial maritime<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Deep sea fishing floats of ancient history<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Etched by sand, worn, and corroded<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Freeblown glass by artisans and set adrift<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gill-netters for cod, long-liners for tuna<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hand labor operations and industry<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Inside hollow, thick, walls filled with air<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Knife carvings shown by their wooden molds<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Less expensive than buoys<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Millions strung on miles of nets <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nautical, floating with ocean flotsam and jetsam<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Old, recycled sake wine with air bubble markings <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Prized, rare, and washed up with the driftwood<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Quietly sea-faring for decades, then centuries<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rough, frosted and found in many colors and shades<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Storms and westerly winds bring them to shore<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tangerine or grapefruit-size spheres<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ultimately replaced with styrofoam or plastic<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Venturers of the North Pacific waters<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Worn net ropes still attached from a long journey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Xerarchs living amphibious lives<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Years of surf action atop the ocean swells<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Zigzagging, caught in circular currants and ice packs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>*\u201cBindamas\u201d are glass floats in Japanese. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amy enjoys beachcombing for treasures in Southeast Alaska. She has a few of these glass floats in her house for decor and wanted to share the historic value of these beautiful glass floats through a poem that reaches others who are also fond of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aqua green with embossed kanji Beachcomber finds and nautical decor Collector items of the commercial maritime Deep sea fishing floats of ancient history Etched by sand, worn, and corroded Freeblown glass by artisans and set adrift Gill-netters for cod, long-liners for tuna Hand labor operations and industry Inside hollow, thick, walls filled with air Japan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}