{"id":1318,"date":"2011-12-16T18:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:59:45","slug":"my-origami-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"My origami Christmas tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephensorigami.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/origami-christmas-tree-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_dQ5e8NQ8gow\/TPyHfKWDK1I\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/vBjQKADurXc\/s1600\/Origami+Christmas+Tree+Tutorial+36.JPG\" width=\"320\" alt=\"origami Christmas Tree design.\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/stephensorigami.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/origami-christmas-tree-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\">design<\/a> while doing research for my work Christmas tree competition. We ended up building a white 6-tier version plus trunk topped with a small stellated dodecahedron. The whole thing is about 80 cm high.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been booked to play a few numbers at the Isis Tavern tomorrow and I was trying to come up with a Christmas-themed song to go with my Fruedian\u2013Yulean semi-prose poem.<\/p>\n<p>While folding one of the tiers I had the idea of writing a song <!--more--> called My Origami Christmas Tree, set in Japan, about a lonely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/15\/magazine\/15japanese.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">hikikomori<\/a> creating an origami coniferous forest in his tiny one-room flat. The story is based partially on a real-life character, Wataru Ito, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/japan\/5794258\/Origami-city-model-crafted-entirely-from-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\">built an entire model city using a knife, glue and craft paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve also attempted to bring in more general aspects of Christmas in Japan and inject a modicum of romance.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear it performed at the Isis Tavern, Saturday 17 December. The show starts at 8pm. Lot&#8217;s of high-calibre musicians will also be performing and the second half is an audience participation carol concert.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this design while doing research for my work Christmas tree competition. We ended up building a white 6-tier version plus trunk topped with a small stellated dodecahedron. The whole thing is about 80 cm high. I&#8217;ve been booked to play a few numbers at the Isis Tavern tomorrow and I was trying [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,189,20,4],"tags":[192,190,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}