{"id":8005,"date":"2013-11-14T02:43:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2013-11-19T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T01:51:11","slug":"things-i-didnt-see-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/things-i-didnt-see-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Didn&#8217;t See in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I was in Matsue, I didn&#8217;t get over to Yaegaki-jinja.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever make it back to this part of Japan again, but I won&#8217;t regret missing the opportunity to walk through the shrine precincts muttering &#8220;<em>Kushinada<\/em>&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 I did see Matsue castle from the bus, but I didn&#8217;t get to go inside or take pictures.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I guess I&#8217;m a little bummed about that.<\/p>\n<p>I went all the way to Uji, but the weather hadn&#8217;t been cold enough for the majority of the momiji to turn to red, and Byodo-in was covered in scaffolding and plastic sheeting for a 3-year renovation project.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess Byodo-in is more interesting to Hawaii folk than the average American,\u00c2\u00a0because of the 3\/4 scale concrete replica at Temple Valley.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0They supposedly have a really nice garden, but I&#8217;ve been to some other famous gardens and was underwhelmed, so I passed on the 500-yen entry fee.\u00c2\u00a0 The throngs of shouting schoolkids queued up made my decision to pass easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I was in Matsue, I didn&#8217;t get over to Yaegaki-jinja.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever make it back to this part of Japan again, but I won&#8217;t regret missing the opportunity to walk through the shrine precincts muttering &#8220;Kushinada&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 I did see Matsue castle from the bus, but I didn&#8217;t get to go inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,12,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-257","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}