{"id":10094,"date":"2012-09-27T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=10094"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T00:20:06","slug":"thirsty-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/thirsty-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirsty Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/30135539-\u6749\u4e26\u533a\u5800\u30ce\u5185\uff13\uff0d\uff14\uff18\uff0d\uff18-\u5999\u6cd5\u5bfa-dragon-drink-myohoji-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/30135539-\u6749\u4e26\u533a\u5800\u30ce\u5185\uff13\uff0d\uff14\uff18\uff0d\uff18-\u5999\u6cd5\u5bfa-dragon-drink-myohoji-1.jpg\" alt=\"thirsty dragon buddhist temple water purification koenji tokyo suginami ku\" title=\"\u6749\u4e26\u533a\u5800\u30ce\u5185\uff13\uff0d\uff14\uff18\uff0d\uff18 \u5999\u6cd5\u5bfa dragon drink myohoji\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been reading <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/haruki-murakami\/>Haruki Murakami&#8217;s<\/a> <I>1Q84<\/I> for the past week. The setting for some of the book is Koenji, just west of central Tokyo in Suginami-Ku. I lived in Suginami-Ku in 1989, almost the same time period as Murakami&#8217;s book. Today&#8217;s photo is from 2010 though (when <I>1Q84<\/I> was first published in Japanese). I took this pic at Myohoji (\u5999\u6cd5\u5bfa), which is a bit south of Koenji but still walking distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading Haruki Murakami&#8217;s 1Q84 for the past week. The setting for some of the book is Koenji, just west of central Tokyo in Suginami-Ku. I lived in Suginami-Ku in 1989, almost the same time period as Murakami&#8217;s book. Today&#8217;s photo is from 2010 though (when 1Q84 was first published in Japanese). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26353,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10094\/revisions\/26353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}