{"id":7765,"date":"2007-06-29T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/06\/29\/iphone-indifference\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:46","slug":"iphone-indifference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/06\/29\/iphone-indifference\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone indifference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only am I not breathlessly awaiting<\/a> the newest thingy<\/a> from Apple, which is premiering today<\/a>, I’m not even among the merely skeptical<\/a>. The only line you are likely to find me in this afternoon is this one<\/a> with Union College professor Yu Chang.<\/p>\n

<\/blockquote>\n

watch out, kids!
\ndon\u2019t let those red mushrooms
\ncast a spell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

…… by ISSA<\/a> (translated by David G. Lanoue)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"erasingSF\" <\/font>Call me an old luddite, or helplessly behind the times, but this self-proclaimed podriah<\/a> is going to stick to single-purpose telephones, while enjoying the haiku and senryu of Honored Guest poet Tom Clausen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

strip mall —
\nthe shimmer of leaves
\non a new tree<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

muffler shop
\na man managing
\nhis cough<\/p>\n

\n

in our doorway
\na man reads to me
\na bible passage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

beginning late . . .
\nthe under attended
\nconcert<\/p>\n

\n

the cashier
\nholds another large bill
\nup to the light<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

water
\nfrom the flower vase
\nreturned to the garden<\/p>\n

old friends talk —
\neach holding
\ncar keys<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

breakdown lane
\nplastered
\nwith political stickers<\/p>\n

dining room
\nnext to my wife’s chair
\nher dog at attention<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

……. by Tom Clausen<\/a> from Upstate Dim Sum<\/a><\/em> 2007\/1<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em> Have you ever noticed how hard it is to give up punditry (or even consumerism) cold-turkey? If you’re wondering about the economic and policy implications of America’s $850 Billion current-account deficit, see “Debtor Nation<\/a>,” in the latest Harvard Magazine<\/em> (July-August 2007).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not only am I not breathlessly awaiting the newest thingy from Apple, which is premiering today, I’m not even among the merely skeptical. The only line you are likely to find me in this afternoon is this one with Union College professor Yu Chang. watch out, kids! don\u2019t let those red mushrooms cast a spell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-21f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions\/12518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}