{"id":9351,"date":"2016-04-20T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/tai-chi-rhapsody\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:01:11","slug":"tai-chi-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/tai-chi-rhapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Chi Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p\/>\n<p>I am that long row of snow-blanketed Chilkat mountains <\/p>\n<p>from valley fullness to spaciousness beyond peaks.<\/p>\n<p>I am frothy crests of wind-whipped waves in Lynn Canal <\/p>\n<p>pushed south against an incoming tide.<\/p>\n<p>I am a breaching humpback whale and the breach as well.<\/p>\n<p>I am sounds of surf grasping in vain for the beach <\/p>\n<p>the murmur of rolling pebbles and the silence in between.<\/p>\n<p>I am a car passing on the road among the trees <\/p>\n<p>sharing with those travelers a destination not yet reached.<\/p>\n<p>I am all this and more, <\/p>\n<p>like a bubble in a stream. <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Glen Ray deeply enjoys life in Juneau and exploring spiritual qualities of ordinary experience through the lenses of meditation, qigong, tai chi and sculpture.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Submit poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction to Writers\u2019 Weir by emailing maryc.martin@capweek.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am that long row of snow-blanketed Chilkat mountains from valley fullness to spaciousness beyond peaks. I am frothy crests of wind-whipped waves in Lynn Canal pushed south against an incoming tide. I am a breaching humpback whale and the breach as well. I am sounds of surf grasping in vain for the beach the [&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-9351","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\/9351","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=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}