{"id":131,"date":"2006-03-09T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2006\/03\/09\/bathed-in-bubble-wrap\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T00:09:21","slug":"bathed-in-bubble-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/bathed-in-bubble-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathed in Bubble Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won! <a href=\"http:\/\/inBubbleWrap.com\">In Bubble Wrap<\/a> had a quick contest today to see who could send in the first iBW-themed haiku, the winner getting a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/WhiteHatCrew.com\/moreinfo\/a\/1591841038\">The Big Moo<\/a>. Here's my entry, which turned out to be first:<\/p>\n<p>Sleep awakens my<br \/>\nfloating world of ecstasy<br \/>\nbathed in Bubble Wrap<\/p>\n<p>The \"floating world\", or \"ukiyo\" in Japanese, refers to worldly or earthly things. Japanese art has a genre named \"ukiyoe\" or \"floating world picture\" which \"originally depicted daily life in the 'floating world' of the Edo pleasure quarters, but eventually developed into a sophisticated art form that greatly influenced the European impressionist school.\" (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=X&amp;start=0&amp;oi=define&amp;q=http:\/\/www8.plala.or.jp\/y-naka\/jiten-u.html\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In Bubble Wrap describes itself as \"a site dedicated to giving you the opportunity to win FREE business related prizes. Each day (Monday \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Friday) brings a new contest with new prizes for you to win.\" Prizes are sent, you guessed it, in bubble wrap. I'll have to Photoshop up a little dream collage to go with the haiku when I get mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won! In Bubble Wrap had a quick contest today to see who could send in the first iBW-themed haiku, the winner getting a copy of The Big Moo. Here's my entry, which turned out to be first: Sleep awakens my floating world of ecstasy bathed in Bubble Wrap The \"floating world\", or \"ukiyo\" in...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/bathed-in-bubble-wrap\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}