{"id":244,"date":"2007-05-03T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T08:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=244"},"modified":"2007-05-03T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T08:51:38","slug":"it-must-be-all-the-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"It must be all the green&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snooker season on TV at the monemt, and it&#8217;s got me hooked again.\u00a0 I could just sit there watching it for hours and hours and hours.\u00a0 There&#8217;s just so much about\u00a0it that seems so restful.\u00a0 The whispered commentary, the green of the table, the lack of much roaring from the &#8220;crowd&#8221;, the relatively slow pace of the game&#8230;\u00a0 Everything really!<\/p>\n<p>And when there&#8217;s a long safety battle going on with the players trying for snookers I&#8217;m always reminded of a Japanese Zen rock garden where no matter where you look from you can only see so many rocks at once.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day I&#8217;ll head to a session and sit there for a few hours soaking in the atmosphere.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s snooker season on TV at the monemt, and it&#8217;s got me hooked again.\u00a0 I could just sit there watching it for hours and hours and hours.\u00a0 There&#8217;s just so much about\u00a0it that seems so restful.\u00a0 The whispered commentary, the green of the table, the lack of much roaring from the &#8220;crowd&#8221;, the relatively slow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}