{"id":6749,"date":"2011-01-01T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2011-01-01T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:32:19","slug":"meiji-jingu-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/meiji-jingu-on-new-years-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Meiji Jingu on New Year&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/01160121trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/01160121trim-800x472.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"meiji jingu shrine new year&#039;s day tokyo japan \" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/01160121trim-800x472.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/01160121trim-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/01160121trim.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have braved the New Year&#8217;s Day crowds at Meiji Jingu twice in my life&#8211;1989 and 2010. The place and number of people don&#8217;t seem to have changed. The crowd control measures sure have.<\/p>\n<p>Hatsumode (\u521d\u8a63) is the name of this first shrine visit of the new year. Technically, this wasn&#8217;t my first shrine visit in 2010 as I was at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/happy-new-year-%E3%81%82%E3%81%91%E3%81%BE%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%8A%E3%82%81%E3%81%A7%E3%81%A8%E3%81%86%E3%81%94%E3%81%96%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99\/>Zojoji<\/a> much earlier in the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have braved the New Year&#8217;s Day crowds at Meiji Jingu twice in my life&#8211;1989 and 2010. The place and number of people don&#8217;t seem to have changed. The crowd control measures sure have. Hatsumode (\u521d\u8a63) is the name of this first shrine visit of the new year. Technically, this wasn&#8217;t my first shrine visit [&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":[224,204,176,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749"}],"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=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6751,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}