{"id":3151,"date":"2009-10-08T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2009-09-30T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:48:27","slug":"accidental-picture-of-the-prime-ministers-official-residence-%e7%b7%8f%e7%90%86%e5%a4%a7%e8%87%a3%e5%ae%98%e9%82%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/accidental-picture-of-the-prime-ministers-official-residence-%e7%b7%8f%e7%90%86%e5%a4%a7%e8%87%a3%e5%ae%98%e9%82%b8\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental picture of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Residence (\u7dcf\u7406\u5927\u81e3\u5b98\u90b8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1010378trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1010378trim-800x624.jpg\" alt=\"japan Prime Minister's Official Residence \u7dcf\u7406\u5927\u81e3\u5b98\u90b8\" title=\"japan Prime Minister's Official Residence \u7dcf\u7406\u5927\u81e3\u5b98\u90b8\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1010378trim-800x624.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1010378trim-250x195.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1010378trim.jpg 1153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a business meeting one morning in Akasaka (\u8d64\u5742) I had an hour or two to kill before I needed to jump on a train for Kanagawa Ken. I found Hiejinja (\u65e5\u679d\u795e\u793e), and spent some time there (photos coming soon). As I wandered away, looking for a Tokyo Metro station, the sky got really beautiful. As blue skies broke through multiple layers of crazy <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/clouds\/>cloud<\/a> shapes I decided to pull out my camera and take the above picture.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I got to the bottom of the hill (where there was still no metro station) and found a large, public map on the street corner board that I realized I had just accidentally photographed the Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Residence in my attempt to capture a cool looking sky. Compare this to someone walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC with no awareness that the White House could be found on the street. Seeing an impressive array of clouds they take a photograph and end up with a picture of the White House in the process. This is essentially what I did in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a business meeting one morning in Akasaka (\u8d64\u5742) I had an hour or two to kill before I needed to jump on a train for Kanagawa Ken. I found Hiejinja (\u65e5\u679d\u795e\u793e), and spent some time there (photos coming soon). As I wandered away, looking for a Tokyo Metro station, the sky got really beautiful. [&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":[175,130,174,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151"}],"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=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}