{"id":474,"date":"2012-05-21T14:43:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=474"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:43:23","slug":"very-fine-shrines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Very Fine Shrines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=384\">Back<\/a> to <strong>Asakusa<\/strong> on Friday night, to see a bit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanja_Matsuri\"><strong>Sanja Matsuri<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-475\" title=\"AsakusaMikoshi1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The big crowds hadn&#8217;t formed yet, so we caught all the close-up <strong>portable shrine action <\/strong>we could wish for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-476\" title=\"AsakusaMikoshi2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;plus a bit of traditional music.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"AsakusaDrumFloat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaDrumFloat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaDrumFloat.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaDrumFloat-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hear each shrine weighs about a ton. Carrying them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-478\" title=\"AsakusaMikoshi3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi3.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi3-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;is clearly a <strong>deeply serious business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-479\" title=\"AsakusaMikoshi4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi4.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AsakusaMikoshi4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Asakusa on Friday night, to see a bit of the Sanja Matsuri. The big crowds hadn&#8217;t formed yet, so we caught all the close-up portable shrine action we could wish for&#8230; &#8230;plus a bit of traditional music. I hear each shrine weighs about a ton. Carrying them&#8230; &#8230;is clearly a deeply serious business.<\/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-474","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\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}