{"id":40961,"date":"2017-08-06T02:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40961"},"modified":"2017-08-06T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:41:27","slug":"white-hairy-monkey-fu-ding-bai-mao-hou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/white-hairy-monkey-fu-ding-bai-mao-hou\/","title":{"rendered":"White Hairy Monkey (Fu Ding Bai Mao Hou)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/p>\n<p>I love teas, my favourite being the Chinese white teas, which are the top 2 buds of the tea plant, which are left to dry in the sun, with no roasting. White teas are caffein-free. The White Hairy Monkey tea of this poem was what I drank at my first pamphlet launch, at Waterloo Tea in Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff, Wales.<\/p>\n<h1>White Hairy Monkey (Fu Ding Bai Mao Hou)<\/h1>\n<p>Brethren of Silver needle,<br \/>\na pale sweetness enveloping<br \/>\nthat opens to yield umami in droves<br \/>\nwhen strained from my green<br \/> <br \/>\nYixing clay teapot,<br \/>\nits frog lid<br \/>\nguarding its secrets.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love teas, my favourite being the Chinese white teas, which are the top 2 buds of the tea plant, which are left to dry in the sun, with no roasting. White teas are caffein-free. The White Hairy Monkey tea of this poem was what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40968,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40961\/revisions\/40968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}