{"id":302,"date":"2020-05-16T22:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?p=302"},"modified":"2020-05-16T22:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:24:39","slug":"a-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2020\/05\/16\/a-longing\/","title":{"rendered":"A longing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, I attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/witshouston.org\/\">WITS<\/a> poetry workshop, which<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshua-nguyen.com\/\"> Joshua Nguyen<\/a> taught. We learned about haibuns (poems which have a paragraph in the beginning and a haiku at the end) and got a chance to write our own. I had so much fun with this and this is my haibun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote my haibun about a longing to be at the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a longing inside of me to see a beautiful blue-green sea, slowly fading into dark blue. I wish to have my feet buried into the warm sand while a book captures my attention. I wish to be where trees line the background and I can sit peacefully with an ice-cream cone. I want to hear the shouts and joy of kids, but still live in my own world of tranquility. I want to relax in the shade of a tree while still staying warm, courtesy of the sun peeping through the branches. I wish to be as relaxed as I was there and never care for anything in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to see the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wondrous ocean again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and relax, happy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are you longing for during social distancing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I attended the WITS poetry workshop, which Joshua Nguyen taught. We learned about haibuns (poems which have a paragraph in the beginning and a haiku at the end) and got a chance to write our own. I had so much fun with this and this is my haibun. I wrote my haibun about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2020\/05\/16\/a-longing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A longing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,2,1,93],"tags":[147,149,19,58,57,5,148],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem","category-travel","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-beach","tag-haibun","tag-houston","tag-ocean","tag-poem","tag-travel","tag-wits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}