{"id":16033,"date":"2014-01-23T05:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/23\/teacup-warrior-philipchircop-engoldened-i\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:33:26","slug":"teacup-warrior-philipchircop-engoldened-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/23\/teacup-warrior-philipchircop-engoldened-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16033 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/23\/teacup-warrior-philipchircop-engoldened-i\/attachment\/16034\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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It<\/span>\u00a0is the Japanese art of\u00a0<span>repairing broken pottery with seams of gold.\u00a0<\/span><span>Kintsugi repairs the brokenness in a way that makes the container even more beautiful than it was prior to being broken. \u00a0<\/span><span>Not a very common idea in western culture!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Instead of diminishing the bowl\u2019s appeal and appreciation, the \u201cbreak\u201d offers the container \u00a0a new sense of its vitality and resilience.\u00a0<\/span><span>The bowl has become more beautiful for having been broken. One can say that the true life of the bowl began the moment it was dropped!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Imagine you are that clay pot: celebrate your flaws and imperfections. Remember that y<\/span>ou being you is what makes you uniquely beautiful. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>And remember:\u00a0<\/span><em><strong>\u201cThe world breaks everyone, then some become strong at the broken places.\u201d<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Hemingway\" title=\"hemingway\">Ernest Hemingway<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>An interesting essay on the art of <em>kintsukuroi<\/em> can be found in\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bachmanneckenstein.com\/downloads\/Flickwerk_The_Aesthetics_of_Mended_Japanese_Ceramics.pdf\" title=\"flickwerk\">Flickwerk, The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics<\/a>.<\/em><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span>Photos source |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kintsugi.jp\/gallery.html\" title=\"kintsugi japan\">Kintsugi Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure that I\u2019ve reblogged this before, but its actually one of my favorite posts on tumblr. The idea that something can be more beautiful after being broken is so moving to me. I kind of want one of these someday, or to make my own. It\u2019s an amazing concept, and I love the fact that it\u2019s an artform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>teacup-warrior: philipchircop: ENGOLDENED I learnt a new word and I love the sound of it: kintsukuroi. It\u00a0is the Japanese art of\u00a0repairing broken pottery with seams of gold.\u00a0Kintsugi repairs the brokenness in a way that makes the container even more beautiful than it was prior to being broken. \u00a0Not a very common idea in western culture! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/23\/teacup-warrior-philipchircop-engoldened-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16041,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions\/16041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}