{"id":9614,"date":"2020-01-06T23:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=9614"},"modified":"2020-01-06T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:08:52","slug":"before-the-rebels-took-chang-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/06\/before-the-rebels-took-chang-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the rebels took Ch\u2019ang-an,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065926.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065926-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Tu Fu escaped the fabled city\" class=\"wp-image-9615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065926-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065926-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065926-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065926.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Tu Fu escaped the fabled city<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065947.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065947-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"where Christian, Jew, and Manichaean\" class=\"wp-image-9616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065947-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065947-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065947-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065947.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>where Christian, Jew, and Manichaean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065950-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"held court with Buddhists.  The Emperor,\" class=\"wp-image-9617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065950-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065950-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065950-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065950.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>held court with Buddhists.  The Emperor,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065952-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"who wrote lyrics and composed, had fled.\" class=\"wp-image-9618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065952-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065952-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065952-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065952.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>who wrote lyrics and composed, had fled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065954-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Months later, crossing moonlit fields\" class=\"wp-image-9619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065954-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065954-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065954-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065954.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Months later, crossing moonlit fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065972.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065972-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"stippled bright with human bones,\" class=\"wp-image-9620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065972-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065972-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065972-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065972.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>stippled bright with human bones,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065977.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065977-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Tu Fu wrote that poetry is useless,\" class=\"wp-image-9621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065977-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065977-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065977-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065977.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Tu Fu wrote that poetry is useless,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065984-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"in a poem alive these thousand years. \u2014John Balaban\" class=\"wp-image-9622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065984-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065984-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065984-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065984.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>in a poem alive these thousand years.<br\/><em>\u2014John Balaban<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1065926.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9623,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions\/9623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}