{"id":692,"date":"2015-06-19T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/marco-polo-movie-on-netflix-uses-yarrow-stalks-from-texas\/"},"modified":"2015-06-20T00:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T00:39:05","slug":"marco-polo-movie-on-netflix-uses-yarrow-stalks-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/marco-polo-movie-on-netflix-uses-yarrow-stalks-from-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Polo Movie on Netflix uses Yarrow Stalks from Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434736891383.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" title=\"wp-1434736891383\" src=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434736891383.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"580\" height=\"537\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yarrow from Texas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How surprised I was last year to ship not one, but 3 sets of stalks to Maylasia, where I later learned a bio &#8211; epic concerning Marco Polo was being filmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434741495589.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-small\" title=\"yarrow stalks\" src=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434741495589.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"409\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>When the series aired on Netflix I watched several episodes, but became impatient, finally and fast-forwarded through the rest to discover what scene or scenes they might appear. It turns out only the final episode of the first series had a quick scene with a Taoist Oracle declaring &#8220;The I Ching does not lie&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind the absolutely ridiculous declaration, but for authenticity &#8216; s sake, would &#8216; he better use the term &#8220;Yi Jing&#8221; and show a few more moments of how they would be handled? So I was disappointed with the whole series, except for the last few scenes of Mongols sitting around their encampment playing Horse Fiddles? (Morin Khuur).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434736413610.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full \" title=\"Tuvan Throat-singers\" src=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wpid-wp-1434736413610.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"703\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuvans<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How surprised I was last year to ship not one, but 3 sets of stalks to Maylasia, where I later learned a bio &#8211; epic concerning Marco Polo was being filmed. ? When the series aired on Netflix I watched &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/marco-polo-movie-on-netflix-uses-yarrow-stalks-from-texas\/\">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-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}