{"id":7776,"date":"2010-01-04T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:28:44","slug":"the-good-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/01\/04\/the-good-emperor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhezong <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Zhezong.jpg\" alt=\"Zhezong\" title=\"Zhezong\" width=\"343\" height=\"431\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Zhezong.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Zhezong-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emperor_Zhezong\">A good emperor \u54f2\u5b97 <\/a><br \/>\ndying young doing good. He was only 24 yrs old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emperor Zhezong (January 4, 1076 \u2013 February 23, 1100) was the seventh emperor of the Song Dynasty of China. His personal name was Zhao4 Xu1. He reigned from 1085 to 1100&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Zhezong lowered taxes, stopped all negotiations with the Tangut Empire and resumed armed conflict which eventually forced the Xixia to enter a more peaceful stance with the Song. Overall, Zhezong&#8217;s reign gave the Song dynasty a breathe of fresh air but Zhezong was not able stop fighting between conservative members in his government and the more liberal members catering to Wang Anshi&#8217;s reforms. This eventually lead to the northern Song&#8217;s demise in the 12th century. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emperor_Zhezong\">wiki<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/11\/02\/the-emperor-and-the-brushstrokes\/\">Huizong<\/a>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/Huizong5.jpg\" alt=\"Emperor Huizong digital image by Fung Lin Hall\" \/> the emperor as an artist<br \/>\n(See previous post &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/11\/02\/the-emperor-and-the-brushstrokes\/\"> Emperor and the Brushstrokes <\/a> or how this emperor resurrected Brice Marden&#8217;s career)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Song-Imperial-Garden12.jpg\" alt=\"Song-Imperial-Garden1\" title=\"Song-Imperial-Garden1\" width=\"443\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Song-Imperial-Garden12.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Song-Imperial-Garden12-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Song_Emperors\">Song Emperors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Song_Dynasty\">Song Dynasty<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Happy birthday to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gao_Xingjian\">Gao Xinjian<\/a> winner of 2000 Nobel Prize for literature and his <a href=\"http:\/\/gao-alvarez.com\/photos.html\">paintings are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Horizons\/2010\/0104\/Isaac-Newton-Why-apples-are-falling-on-Google-today\">Google celebrates<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/newton10-tree.jpg\" alt=\"newton10-tree\" title=\"newton10-tree\" width=\"384\" height=\"138\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/newton10-tree.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/newton10-tree-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><br \/>\n <\/a>Isaac Newton&#8217;s birthday.  (Why apples are falling on Google today)<br \/>\nBut apples do not fall from this copy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhezong A good emperor \u54f2\u5b97 dying young doing good. He was only 24 yrs old. Emperor Zhezong (January 4, 1076 \u2013 February 23, 1100) was the seventh emperor of the Song Dynasty of China. His personal name was Zhao4 Xu1. He reigned from 1085 to 1100&#8230;. Zhezong lowered taxes, stopped all negotiations with the Tangut &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/01\/04\/the-good-emperor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Good Emperor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}