{"id":5385,"date":"2010-05-02T12:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2010-04-30T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T07:40:14","slug":"ellies-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/ellies-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie&#8217;s Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150756trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150756trim-800x471.jpg\" alt=\"n-a-u.jp girls\" title=\"nau T\u30b7\u30e3\u30c4\" width=\"800\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150756trim-800x471.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150756trim-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150756trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only things you can count on in Japan are surprises. Ellie had her 12th birthday party a couple Saturdays ago at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/sunset-behind-yoyogi-national-gymnasium-%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E4%BB%A3%E3%80%85%E6%9C%A8%E7%AB%B6%E6%8A%80%E5%A0%B4\/>Yoyogi Park<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t a surprise party. Ellie invited 8 friends (from 6 different countries), and the party went off as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end a Japanese guy came up to the group and asked me if I spoke Japanese. He explained that he runs a website, <a href=http:\/\/n-a-u.jp target=_new>n-a-u.jp<\/a>, which is sort of like itunes, and would like to know if the girls would be willing to have their photos on the website for free t-shirts. Of course the aspiring models were willing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150709trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150709trim-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"yoyogi park girls tshirts itunes tokyo harajuku japan\" title=\"nau japanese t-shirts\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150709trim-800x515.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150709trim-250x161.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/24150709trim.jpg 1397w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only things you can count on in Japan are surprises. Ellie had her 12th birthday party a couple Saturdays ago at Yoyogi Park. It wasn&#8217;t a surprise party. Ellie invited 8 friends (from 6 different countries), and the party went off as planned. Near the end a Japanese guy came up to the group [&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":[247,210,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385"}],"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=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}