{"id":466,"date":"2007-11-14T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/reading-postsingular-sf-japanese-tea-garden\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:38:48","slug":"reading-postsingular-sf-japanese-tea-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/reading-postsingular-sf-japanese-tea-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Postsingular.  SF Japanese Tea Garden."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/jgtreefog.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I gave a reading from <em>Postsingular <\/em>at the Booksmith.  A small audience, I guess we didn\u2019t promote it enough.  I recorded about 35 minutes of me reading from Chapter 3, followed by 20 minutes of me discussing the book.  Click the button below to access the MP3 audio file podcast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\/podcastbanner_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the way into the Haight, where the Booksmith is, I stopped at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate park. It\u2019s kind of a touristy spot, and I hadn\u2019t been there in years.  But I\u2019m missing Kyoto just a little bit, and I wanted to check the place out.  <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/jgpagoda.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really quite lovely.  And, yes, it\u2019s a little crowded\u2014but so are most of the places like this in Japan!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/jgzengarden.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I even found a little Zen garden behind the miniature pagoda.  I love these setups.  The gravel, the rocks, the dwarf trees and\u2014why not?\u2014a bit of lawn.  The manicured shrub in back molding herself around the rock.<\/p>\n<p>I spent an hour writing on <em>Hylozoic <\/em>in their little tea pavilion.  Drinking oolong.  The waitress was just like in Japan, she wore a kimono and didn\u2019t speak English.  It felt like coming home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I gave a reading from Postsingular at the Booksmith. A small audience, I guess we didn\u2019t promote it enough. I recorded about 35 minutes of me reading from Chapter 3, followed by 20 minutes of me discussing the book. Click the button below to access the MP3 audio file podcast. On the way into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}