{"id":1362,"date":"2008-12-05T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2008-12-05T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T18:45:27","slug":"garden-statue-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/garden-statue-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden statue maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1116trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1361\" title=\"statue\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1116trim-733x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1116trim-733x800.jpg 733w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1116trim-137x150.jpg 137w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_1116trim.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most of us who now call ourselves agnostics can recollect the feelings with which, in the period of our fresh emancipation from a faith far more irrational than Buddhism, we looked back upon the gloomy theology of our fathers&#8230;<br \/><BR>Japan has nothing whatever to gain by conversion to Christianity, either morally or otherwise, but very much to lose.&#8221; (Lafcadio Hearn, 1894, <I><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1604247487\/rpcman target=_new>Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan<\/a><\/i>, pp. xii, xvi)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most of us who now call ourselves agnostics can recollect the feelings with which, in the period of our fresh emancipation from a faith far more irrational than Buddhism, we looked back upon the gloomy theology of our fathers&#8230;Japan has nothing whatever to gain by conversion to Christianity, either morally or otherwise, but very much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,88,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362"}],"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=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}