{"id":6164,"date":"2025-03-07T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2025-03-08T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:32:18","slug":"the-river-as-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"The River as Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A second volume of haiku linked to images in a 5\/7\/5 format has been published to follow <em>The Landscape as Haiku <\/em>from 2023 that can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?page_id=5918\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"5918\">here<\/a>. The book has been published on Blurb where all the pages can be previewed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blurb.co.uk\/b\/12348913-the-river-as-haiku\">https:\/\/www.blurb.co.uk\/b\/12348913-the-river-as-haiku<\/a>.   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