{"id":15,"date":"2009-08-14T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/?p=15"},"modified":"2023-11-26T19:51:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T01:51:52","slug":"essence-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Essence of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Another late night musing, this time written after a long day at the San Japan anime convention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Essence of Beauty<\/strong><br \/>\n<small><small>by Michael Morris<\/small><\/small><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">When the mind is wandering<br \/>\nThe wishes of men come forth<br \/>\nLooking for traits found pondering<br \/>\nThe Essence of Beauty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">While looks are only skin deep<br \/>\nThere are many beautiful things<br \/>\nFound in the heart of women<br \/>\nWaiting for the right one to tend and reap.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Am I the one? Will I feel<br \/>\nThe tender perfection this one personifies<br \/>\nWhile this is not seen by all<br \/>\nIt is felt in this heart today, from head to heel.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Distance grows, the thoughts become naught<br \/>\nI turn and look, as the path starts to wither<br \/>\nAnd I sit quietly, lost in my thoughts<br \/>\nPondering all the times I thought I found<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">My Essence of Beauty<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another late night musing, this time written after a long day at the San Japan anime convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keiichi.net\/keiichi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}