{"id":6126,"date":"2023-06-15T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2023-06-28T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:51:55","slug":"760-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/760-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"760 | Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6127 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PAPILLON-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PAPILLON-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PAPILLON-200x210.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PAPILLON.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Karma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On a green spring afternoon,<br \/>\nI was asleep under a flower tree.<br \/>\nA petal came down and hugged me.<br \/>\nAnother petal came down<br \/>\nand caressed my lip and brow.<br \/>\nOne more came down and cleaned my fingernails.<br \/>\nIn no time a lifetime passed,<br \/>\nand the flower tree withered to death.<br \/>\nI became a butterfly and all alone<br \/>\nfollowed the flower\u2019s path\u2014<br \/>\nflying as in a dream over the hazy field-path.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon Deuk-su<\/strong>, Korea (1928\u20132020)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Translation Ko Chang-soo \u2013\u00a0 Stanley Barkan<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nfrom \u201c<em>The Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em>East-West Publications (UK) Ltd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karma \u00a0 On a green spring afternoon, I was asleep under a flower tree. A petal came down and hugged me. Another petal came down and caressed my lip and brow. One more came down and cleaned my fingernails. In no time a lifetime passed, and the flower tree withered to death. I became a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6179,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/6179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}