{"id":10951,"date":"2012-04-14T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=10951"},"modified":"2012-04-14T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:07:27","slug":"goldfish-to-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/04\/14\/goldfish-to-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"~GOLDFISH to DRAGON . . . down with the rats !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IMAGE: ‘PROSPERITY’ – Pg 81, ‘FIVE-FOLD HAPPINESS’ – ‘Chinese concepts of luck, prosperity, longevity, happiness and wealth’ – by VIVIEN SUNG. CHRONICLE BOOKS, SAN FRANCISCO, 2002.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FILE UNDER: who hasn’t had a pet goldfish swimming around in a little globe of water ?<\/p>\n

FILE UNDER: PROSPERITY, and damn all those cheatin’ rats, anyways !! <\/p>\n

the San Francisco author VIVIEN SUNG, relates a wonderful Chinese myth.<\/p>\n

it’s called: ‘carp leaping over the dragon’s gate’ (!!)<\/p>\n

“Each year, according to legend, carp swam the Yellow River upstream to spawn, and those able to leap the waterfall (!!) <\/em> at the dragon’s gate, . . . were transformed into dragons. Since the Song dynasty (960-1279), the phrase ‘carp leaping over the dragon’s gate turning into a dragon’ . . . has been used as a metaphor for success”. <\/p>\n

and, not from cheating, either !! for innate smarts and studying, i.e. scholarship. <\/p>\n

leaping the waterfall. as opposed to ‘jumping the shark’, ha.<\/p>\n

and yes, a goldfish is !! a small species of carp. <\/p>\n

if you grew up on New York’s Lower East Side – there were always plenty in supply. they used to give them away in tiny plastic cups of water – as game prizes at the annual San Gennaro festivals in little Italy !!
\nI dunno, maybe the politically correct animal rights people – have done away with this ? I mean they did get nice ‘pet’ lives as opposed to being used as fish food – for the larger predator ‘pet’ fish, or even snakes. whatever. I’m just alivin’ to jump that waterfall, myself, it’s a consoling, even radiant, concept – in a world dominated by snakes, sharks and rats.
\nand aunt piggys. hang out with lawyers to right wrongs ? . . . and you’ll yearn for that waterfall too.
\nand I can just hear y’all going: ain’t that the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IMAGE: ‘PROSPERITY’ – Pg 81, ‘FIVE-FOLD HAPPINESS’ – ‘Chinese concepts of luck, prosperity, longevity, happiness and wealth’ – by VIVIEN SUNG. CHRONICLE BOOKS, SAN FRANCISCO, 2002. FILE UNDER: who hasn’t had a pet goldfish swimming around in a little globe of water ? FILE UNDER: PROSPERITY, and damn all those cheatin’ rats, anyways !! the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10966,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions\/10966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}