{"id":5522,"date":"2010-05-16T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2010-05-12T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T02:27:33","slug":"temple-gate-%e6%b3%95%e6%98%8e%e5%af%ba%e3%81%ae%e9%96%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/temple-gate-%e6%b3%95%e6%98%8e%e5%af%ba%e3%81%ae%e9%96%80\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple gate (\u6cd5\u660e\u5bfa\u306e\u9580)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113826trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113826trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"japanese buddhist temple gate homeiji maple leaf in spring ikebukuro tokyo japan\" title=\"\u6cd5\u660e\u5bfa\u306e\u9580\u3000\u7d05\u8449\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113826trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113826trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113826trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have two Japanese maple trees in my backyard in the USA, but I don&#8217;t remember them being extra beautiful, extra green in spring. In Japan the maples seem to have an extra spark this time of year. Maybe it&#8217;s just because they haven&#8217;t been green for so many months so they merely appear extra special now. Or maybe the green gets a little tired later in the summer. In any event, they looked great around the gate of the Homeiji Temple in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/kishimojin-in-ikebukuro-%e6%b1%a0%e8%a2%8b%e3%81%ae%e9%ac%bc%e5%ad%90%e6%af%8d%e7%a5%9e\/>Ikebukuro<\/a> a week ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113638trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113638trim-450x800.jpg\" alt=\"azalea flowers in ikebukuro at homeiji\" title=\"\u6cd5\u660e\u5bfa\u306e\u9580\u3000\u3064\u3064\u3058\u3000\u30c4\u30c4\u30b8\u3000\u8e91\u8e85\u3000\u6c60\u888b\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113638trim-450x800.jpg 450w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113638trim-140x250.jpg 140w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/03113638trim.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the inside of the gate the azaleas (\u30c4\u30c4\u30b8) looked good too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two Japanese maple trees in my backyard in the USA, but I don&#8217;t remember them being extra beautiful, extra green in spring. In Japan the maples seem to have an extra spark this time of year. Maybe it&#8217;s just because they haven&#8217;t been green for so many months so they merely appear extra [&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":[101,278,55,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522"}],"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=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5557,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}