{"id":23374,"date":"2017-02-28T22:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T03:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=23374"},"modified":"2017-02-28T22:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T03:52:41","slug":"%e3%80%8aten-talks-on-poetry-appreciation-9_pastoral-poetry%e3%80%8b__-kong-shiu-loon53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=23374","title":{"rendered":"\u300aTen Talks on Poetry Appreciation: 9_Pastoral Poetry\u300b__ Kong Shiu Loon(53)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">(9) Pastoral Poetry an International Tradition<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chinese pastoral poetry is unique, not only because China was an agricultural country for thousands of years, but also because people who had left home to be scholars and officials in cities always yearned for the quietude and charm of a pastoral life. It has a practical honesty and a spiritual charm. The value of earning one\u2019s keeps to meet needs is basic since antiquity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/2464-ten-talks-on-poetry-appreciaton-9-pastoral-poetry-kong-shiu-loon-53\">Continue reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(9) Pastoral Poetry an International Tradition\u00a0 Chinese pastoral poetry is unique, not only because China was an agricultural country for thousands of years, but also because people who had left home to be scholars and officials in cities always yearned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=23374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-23374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-appreciation","tag-sl-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23376,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions\/23376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}