{"id":1105,"date":"2011-08-31T00:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T07:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/pubs\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2012-04-19T11:49:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T18:49:44","slug":"why-cherry-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/2011\/08\/why-cherry-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cherry Blossoms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry tree blossoms have been used as a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life that has often been associated with\u00a0 the end of life.\u00a0 They are\u00a0said to be associated with <em>mono no aware<\/em>, which can be translated as:\u00a0&#8220;the pathos of things&#8221;, &#8220;an empathy toward things&#8221;, or &#8220;a sensitivity to ephemera.&#8221;\u00a0 The\u00a0term is\u00a0used to describe the awareness of impermanence or the transience of things, and a gentle sadness at their passing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cherry Blossom. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved Sep 28, 2011, from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherry_blossom\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherry_blossom<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>UW cherry tree photo credits for this web site:\u00a0\u00a0 Luis Antonio Rodr\u00edguez Ochoa [luisar] \u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry tree blossoms have been used as a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life that has often been associated with\u00a0 the end of life.\u00a0 They are\u00a0said to be associated with mono no aware, which can be translated as:\u00a0&#8220;the pathos of things&#8221;, &#8220;an empathy toward things&#8221;, or &#8220;a sensitivity to ephemera.&#8221;\u00a0 The\u00a0term is\u00a0used to describe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}