{"id":1125,"date":"2011-04-05T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:36:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:36:49","slug":"tea-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Tea Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I didn&#8217;t think that I&#8217;d be affected by a tea ceremony what with my Chinese background. A friend of brother Jon&#8217;s runs them in Kyoto and we thought we&#8217;d give it a go to see what it was all about.<\/p>\n<p>We had read about it but the full experience was powerfully laden with emotion &amp; symbolism, some elements of which even causing a shiver down the spine. Of course, it may also have been the lack of circulation to the lower extremeties from sitting cross legged for a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Our host was delightful &amp; is about to make the move to Australia (of all things) to join up with her hubby who&#8217;d gone on ahead to Cairns as a cook.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1125 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1126'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC_7012-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1127'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC_7017-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1128'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC_7018-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1129'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSC_7019-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I didn&#8217;t think that I&#8217;d be affected by a tea ceremony what with my Chinese background. A friend of brother Jon&#8217;s runs them in Kyoto and we thought we&#8217;d give it a go to see what it was all about. We had read about it but the full experience was powerfully laden with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tea Ceremony<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[361,208,251],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-2","tag-japan","tag-kyoto","tag-tea-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}