{"id":45398,"date":"2014-08-04T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=45398"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:47","slug":"not-losing-to-the-rain-amenimo-makezu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/not-losing-to-the-rain-amenimo-makezu\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Losing to the Rain (Amenimo makezu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This inspiring poem was written by Japanese school teacher, geologist, poet and writer Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933); it was found posthumously in a notebook in one of the poet&#8217;s trunks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>not losing to the rain<br \/>\nnot losing to the wind<br \/>\nnot losing to the snow nor to summer&#8217;s heat<br \/>\nwith a strong body<br \/>\nunfettered by desire<br \/>\nnever losing temper<br \/>\nalways quietly smiling<br \/>\nevery day four bowls of brown rice<br \/>\nmiso and some vegetables to eat<br \/>\nin everything<br \/>\ncount yourself last and put others before you<br \/>\nwatching and listening, and understanding<br \/>\nand never forgetting<br \/>\nin the shade of the woods of the pines of the fields<br \/>\nbeing in a little thatched hut<br \/>\nif there is a sick child to the east<br \/>\ngoing and nursing over them<br \/>\nif there is a tired mother to the west<br \/>\ngoing and shouldering her sheaf of rice<br \/>\nif there is someone near death to the south<br \/>\ngoing and saying there&#8217;s no need to be afraid<br \/>\nif there is a quarrel or a lawsuit to the north<br \/>\ntelling them to leave off with such waste<br \/>\nwhen there&#8217;s drought, shedding tears of sympathy<br \/>\nwhen the summer&#8217;s cold, wandering upset<br \/>\ncalled a nobody by everyone<br \/>\nwithout being praised<br \/>\nwithout being blamed<br \/>\nsuch a person<br \/>\nI want to become<\/p>\n<p><em>_________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by <\/em>TRANSCEND <em>member Satoshi Ashikaga.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This inspiring poem was written by Japanese school teacher, geologist, poet and writer Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933); it was found posthumously in a notebook in one of the poet&#8217;s trunks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}