{"id":678,"date":"2015-06-01T06:38:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T06:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/tea-dream\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:32:30","slug":"tea-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/tea-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream, too. I had just come into a harvest of tea leaves. I decided that I needed to toast them before a carefully prepared fire. When it was done, it was WONDERFUL. At least to me. A huge harvest of beautiful, rich tea. <\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1433140510021.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1433140510021\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1433140510021.jpeg\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roasting tea leaves, traditional<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I shared a cup with someone regarded as an expert, whom I really trusted. He quietly told me it was not as good as I thought it was. He said I shouldn&#8217;t try to do things I wasn&#8217;t trained to do. That only people brought up in a Tea family should do such things. He just said &#8220;It is impossible, you fool only yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I recalled this dream later, I laughed out loud. I had just seen this person inhale my cup of tea with deep, secret satisfaction.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-il_570xn.283316979.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"il_570xN.283316979.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-il_570xn.283316979.jpg\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raku Chawan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream, too. I had just come into a harvest of tea leaves. I decided that I needed to toast them before a carefully prepared fire. When it was done, it was WONDERFUL. At least to me. A &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/tea-dream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}