{"id":6942,"date":"2011-02-12T23:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T06:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2014-09-15T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:20:19","slug":"yasukuni-howitzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/yasukuni-howitzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasukuni Howitzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124045trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124045trim-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ww2 howitzer okinawa yasukuni jinja\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124045trim-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124045trim-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124045trim.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took today&#8217;s photo at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/yasukuni\/>Yasukuni Shrine<\/a> in Tokyo because I thought the sign was ironic. It says not to climb on the Howitzer because doing so is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The sign below it also struck me as odd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124022trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124022trim-800x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"yasukuni shrine tokyo war memorial howitzer sign\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124022trim-800x320.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124022trim-250x100.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/02124022trim.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400064163?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=rpcman&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1400064163\" target=_new>Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption<\/a>. Perhaps I&#8217;ll give it a review when I&#8217;ve finished. If nothing else it gives you something extra to think about when you visit a place like Yasukuni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took today&#8217;s photo at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo because I thought the sign was ironic. It says not to climb on the Howitzer because doing so is dangerous. The sign below it also struck me as odd. I&#8217;ve been reading Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Perhaps I&#8217;ll give [&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":[44,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942"}],"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=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}