{"id":1484,"date":"2019-03-02T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:43:47","slug":"japan-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/2019\/03\/japan-photo-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"finding wabi sabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without expectation, without knowing I was searching for anything, Japan welcomed me through comfort in order, chaos through contraction. I have never arrived in a place that felt so foreign and made so much sense\u2014where without fail, eager strangers welcomed me. A place of such striking natural beauty that the whole country stopped to take it in: Fuji-san, seasons changing, bonsai growing. Nothing is overlooked. The precision laid out before me left little for interpretation yet offered a path to explore my own depth. Nothing was what it seemed, but everything made sense. In that strange and familiar land, I discovered my resilience in a way that was new, stronger. Growing up, towards the sun, without a clear goal but with a focus on the light.<\/p>\n

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\"Men<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Embark<\/p>\n

\"Schoolgirls<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Discover<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Collide<\/p>\n

\"Tokyo<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Expand<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Nest<\/p>\n

\"Building<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Light<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Fit<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

8. Together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Without expectation, without knowing I was searching for anything, Japan welcomed me through comfort in order, chaos through contraction. I have never arrived in a place that felt so foreign and made so much sense\u2014where without fail, eager strangers welcomed me. A place of such striking natural beauty that the whole country stopped to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chidint\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}