{"id":31,"date":"2013-01-01T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T11:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-01-01T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T11:23:32","slug":"7th-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"7th December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Standing by the open kitchen window on the 6th<\/sup> floor of the apartment block in which I\u2019m staying, for the first time in three weeks, I shiver.\u00a0 A cool breeze embraces me, full of apologies for its lateness, greeting me as if after an epic voyage across the globe. I close my eyes, allow myself a smile and consider waking my flatmate so that she can experience this rare pleasure.<\/p>\n

As ants crawl along the crease in my laptop, I blow them off, wondering if they realise how lucky they are that this is to be their only face-off with me. The Raid remains below the kitchen sink\u2026 for now.<\/p>\n

An almost imperceptible scent of incense from the nearby monastery wafts into the room.\u00a0 From the window, the backdrop of a hazy blue sky is cropped by a block of 4 mildewed apartment buildings, prefaced by dense greenery which lines a narrow gauge railway track.\u00a0 On every floor of the apartment blocks, laundry is hung over windowsills or suspended precariously on washing lines, a long drop from the filthy ground.\u00a0 Twittering birds try to make themselves heard above the persistent and unnecessary honk of a passing passenger train. The general rumble of traffic and beeping cars which had driven me crazy a few weeks ago now goes virtually unnoticed. (Another ant goes flying\u2026) The \u2018ding ding\u2019 of a trishaw (or \u2018sai-ka\u2019) passing on other side of the building is so familiar it takes me a minute to realise how typically Burmese this moment is. And that breeze is delicious<\/em>\u2026 I may never move from this spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Standing by the open kitchen window on the 6th floor of the apartment block in which I\u2019m staying, for the first time in three weeks, I shiver.\u00a0 A cool breeze embraces me, full of apologies for its lateness, greeting me as if after an epic voyage across the globe. I close my eyes, allow myself … Continue reading “7th December 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackroseimmortal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}