{"id":14870,"date":"2015-09-16T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=14870"},"modified":"2015-09-15T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T05:04:58","slug":"prepping-for-the-tenso-jinja-bon-odori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/prepping-for-the-tenso-jinja-bon-odori\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepping for the Tenso Jinja Bon Odori"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14871\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/138_4683-RAW-tenso-jinja-nishiwaseda-bonodori.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14871\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/138_4683-RAW-tenso-jinja-nishiwaseda-bonodori-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"tenso jinja nishiwaseda bonodori\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/138_4683-RAW-tenso-jinja-nishiwaseda-bonodori-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/138_4683-RAW-tenso-jinja-nishiwaseda-bonodori-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/138_4683-RAW-tenso-jinja-nishiwaseda-bonodori.jpg 1947w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenso Jinja (Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a 20-year gap in living in Japan, we went back to live in Tokyo for a year beginning in 2009. On our first night we headed to a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/bon-odori\/>Bon Odori<\/a> at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/%E5%A4%A9%E7%A5%96%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE\/>Tenso Jinja<\/a>. That was a magical night for me.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to 2013, and I hadn&#8217;t been to Japan for over three years. I wandered into my old neighborhood to find my local shrine getting ready for its annual Bon Odori. The vibe was bittersweet as I waxed nostalgic but also realized I would be heading back to the USA before the actual event took place the following week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 20-year gap in living in Japan, we went back to live in Tokyo for a year beginning in 2009. On our first night we headed to a Bon Odori at Tenso Jinja. That was a magical night for me. Flash forward to 2013, and I hadn&#8217;t been to Japan for over three years. [&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":[196,224,447,429,195,87,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870"}],"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=14870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14874,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions\/14874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}