{"id":1449,"date":"2009-08-26T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2009-09-09T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T20:13:20","slug":"the-tea-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe tea ritual:<br \/>\nsuch a precise repetition of the same gestures<br \/>\nand the same tastes;<\/p>\n<p>accesion to simple,<br \/>\nauthentic<br \/>\nand refined sensations,<\/p>\n<p>a license given to all,<br \/>\nat little cost,<br \/>\nto become aristocrats of taste,<\/p>\n<p>because tea is the beverage of the wealthy<br \/>\nand of the poor;<\/p>\n<p>the tea ritual, therefore, has the extraordinary virtue of introducing<br \/>\ninto the absurdity of our lives<br \/>\nan aperture of serene harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness,<br \/>\nlost souls mourn beauty,<br \/>\ninsignificance surrounds us.<\/p>\n<p>Then let us drink a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>Silence descends,<br \/>\none hears the wind outside,<br \/>\nautumn leaves rustle and take flight,<br \/>\nthe cat sleeps in a warm pool of light.<\/p>\n<p>And,<\/p>\n<p>with each swallow,<\/p>\n<p>time is sublimed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Th<\/em><em>e Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/em> by Muriel Barbery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accesion to simple, authentic and refined sensations, a license given to all, at little cost, to become aristocrats of taste, because tea is the beverage of the wealthy and of the poor; the tea ritual, therefore, has the extraordinary virtue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-nn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}