{"id":291,"date":"2012-04-12T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-04-12T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:20:00","slug":"hanami-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"HANAMI MADNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cherry blossom season here in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-292\" title=\"Kotoku-in10thApril2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Kotoku-in10thApril2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Kotoku-in10thApril2012.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Kotoku-in10thApril2012-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having my first experiences of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanami\">hanami<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-302\" title=\"UenoPark8thApril2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UenoPark8thApril2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UenoPark8thApril2012.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UenoPark8thApril2012-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The blossoms themselves are pretty spectacular. But I&#8217;m more impressed by the effect they seem to have.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-294\" title=\"UenoHanami8thApril2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UenoHanami8thApril2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UenoHanami8thApril2012.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/UenoHanami8thApril2012-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s like a national <strong>party. <\/strong>Parks are stuffed full of people picnicking and boozing. Not just young people either: I keep seeing otherwise quite conventional-looking grown-ups &#8211; old folks, too &#8211; all grinning, giggling, playing silly b&amp;ggers and occasionally falling over and passing out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-295\" title=\"YanakaCemetery8thApril2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/YanakaCemetery8thApril2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/YanakaCemetery8thApril2012.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/YanakaCemetery8thApril2012-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <strong>catching<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cherry blossom season here in Japan. I&#8217;ve been having my first experiences of hanami. The blossoms themselves are pretty spectacular. But I&#8217;m more impressed by the effect they seem to have. It&#8217;s like a national party. Parks are stuffed full of people picnicking and boozing. Not just young people either: I keep seeing otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sam-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}