{"id":15770,"date":"2023-08-12T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=15770"},"modified":"2023-08-12T00:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:11:01","slug":"the-edo-period-1600-1868-the-meiji-era-1868-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/the-edo-period-1600-1868-the-meiji-era-1868-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edo Period (1600-1868) The Meiji Era (1868-1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My sister and I are Half-Japanese <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our father is Japanese <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And our mother is English <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We sit on the beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Near our home <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching the waves <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the summer months <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tides are very low <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the waves submissive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose that we are waiting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Hokusai&#8217;s GREAT WAVE <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it will never arrive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here in Kingsdown <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emi had asked me to write a poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About our dreams <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am no more a poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Than she is <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I wanted to please her <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she is a gentle creature <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This poem has made her very happy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although she questions the title <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And wonders why I did not call the poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> HOKUSAI&#8217;S GREAT WAVE <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister and I are Half-Japanese Our father is Japanese And our mother is English We sit on the beach Near our home Watching the waves During the summer months The tides are very low And the waves submissive I suppose that we are waiting For Hokusai&#8217;s GREAT WAVE But it will never arrive Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15774,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770\/revisions\/15774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}