{"id":5915,"date":"2010-06-29T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2011-06-05T12:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T19:58:37","slug":"more-photos-and-video-from-the-iris-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/more-photos-and-video-from-the-iris-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"More photos and video from the iris festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1010378trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1010378trim-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"turtle kame\" title=\"Horikiri Shobuen \u5800\u5207\u83d6\u84b2\u5712 iris garden tokyo japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1010378trim-800x507.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1010378trim-250x158.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1010378trim.jpg 1701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two creatures which are rather rare to spot in the U.S.A. but which can be found in nearly every body of water in Japan are <I>koi<\/I> (carp) and <I>kame<\/I> (turtle). This turtle was balancing precariously on a rock, perhaps posing to try and get in some pictures as <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/horikiri-shobuen-%E5%A0%80%E5%88%87%E8%8F%96%E8%92%B2%E5%9C%92\/>the irises were stealing all of the glory on this day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After getting our fill of Horikiri Shobuen (\u5800\u5207\u83d6\u84b2\u5712), we walked across the way for some taiko drumming.<\/p>\n<p>Crank it up and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"800\" height=\"466\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pV0enRI6HVk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pV0enRI6HVk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two creatures which are rather rare to spot in the U.S.A. but which can be found in nearly every body of water in Japan are koi (carp) and kame (turtle). This turtle was balancing precariously on a rock, perhaps posing to try and get in some pictures as the irises were stealing all of the [&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":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915"}],"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=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}