{"id":2834,"date":"2009-09-01T16:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2009-09-02T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T06:26:43","slug":"memories-of-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/memories-of-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040830trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040830trim-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"japanese kids playing baseball in the park\" title=\"japanese kids playing baseball in the park\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040830trim-800x576.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040830trim-250x180.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040830trim.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid I played some form of baseball (frequently wiffleball due to space and number-of-participants constraints) at least 200 days a year. I don&#8217;t see that anymore in the states in this age of soccer and video games. But <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/japans-national-pastime\/>in Japan I see kids playing baseball<\/a> nearly every day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040831trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040831trim-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"\u91ce\u7403\u3000\u7518\u6cc9\u5712\u516c\u5712\" title=\"\u91ce\u7403\u3000\u7518\u6cc9\u5712\u516c\u5712\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040831trim-800x566.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040831trim-250x177.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/P1040831trim.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The location for these shots is the open area on the north-west corner of \u7518\u6cc9\u5712\u516c\u5712. I&#8217;ll be posting more pictures from and information about this park near Waseda University soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid I played some form of baseball (frequently wiffleball due to space and number-of-participants constraints) at least 200 days a year. I don&#8217;t see that anymore in the states in this age of soccer and video games. But in Japan I see kids playing baseball nearly every day. The location for [&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":[82,88,195,30,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834"}],"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=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}