{"id":74,"date":"2012-06-13T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riemkeensing.wordpress.com\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2012-06-13T15:55:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:55:29","slug":"tai-chi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/?page_id=74","title":{"rendered":"T\u2019ai Chi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Poems for China<br \/>\n(for Zhang Weiping in prison)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the space where they keep you<br \/>\nthe next years is just a little<br \/>\nlarger than the length of your outstretched<br \/>\narm, you\u2019ll be able to visualize clouds<br \/>\nand move them away<br \/>\nwith a slow graceful turn<br \/>\nof your hand should they frown<br \/>\nor darken to form rain. A few movements<br \/>\nwill shape you trees to shade your head<br \/>\nand the hard board of your bed<br \/>\nwill be earth sprung bright with flowers<br \/>\nand new grass. You might be tempted<br \/>\nto tense a melon out of the early vapours of air<br \/>\nand imagine, oh imagine that cool caress for breakfast.<br \/>\nThese acts will make you<br \/>\nstrong, subtle as ink brush-stroked on paper<br \/>\nall those centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the story told of the woman in prison.<br \/>\nShe knew Beethoven well. From inside<br \/>\neach day she conducted a quartet. Each part separately<br \/>\nin her head, then putting all four instruments together<br \/>\nsilently as she sat there in solitary confinement.<br \/>\nIt took years, but the music lifted the sky<br \/>\ninto that darkness, and the sun<\/p>\n<p>gave back her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Poems for China (for Zhang Weiping in prison) &nbsp; If the space where they keep you the next years is just a little larger than the length of your outstretched arm, you\u2019ll be able to visualize clouds and move them away with a slow graceful turn of your hand should they frown or darken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}