{"id":3398,"date":"2016-01-18T07:25:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2016-01-16T08:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:29:48","slug":"what-is-wabi-sabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/what-is-wabi-sabi\/","title":{"rendered":"What is wabi-sabi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>There is a crack, a crack in everything<br \/>That&#8217;s how the light gets in<\/em> \u2014 Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<p>Despite having heard the term, I didn\u2019t know much about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wabi-sabi\">wabi-sabi<\/a> until watching this short, nicely produced explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At the heart of Japanese philosophy and wisdom lies a concept called \u2018wabi-sabi\u2019; a term which denotes a commitment to the everyday, the melancholic, the somewhat broken and the imperfect. It\u2019s a term we need a lot more of in our lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QmHLYhxYVjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Koren writes, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0981484603\/wwwaustinkleo-20\/ref=nosim\/\">Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets &#038; Philosophers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. All things are impermanent.<br \/>\n2. All things are imperfect.<br \/>\n3. All things are incomplete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Blessed are the cracked<br \/>For they shall let in the light.<\/em> \u2014 Groucho Marx<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QmHLYhxYVjA\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/137041163041\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a crack, a crack in everythingThat&#8217;s how the light gets in \u2014 Leonard Cohen Despite having heard the term, I didn\u2019t know much about wabi-sabi until watching this short, nicely produced explanation. At the heart of Japanese philosophy and wisdom lies a concept called \u2018wabi-sabi\u2019; a term which denotes a commitment to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}