{"id":7411,"date":"2011-05-06T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T19:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2011-05-06T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T19:47:44","slug":"ikegami-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/ikegami-contrasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikegami contrasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/05112931trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/05112931trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"plum blossoms ume ikegami tokyo flowers stone japanese lantern\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/05112931trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/05112931trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/05112931trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year in Japan gave me a whole new perspective on the changing seasons, including the flowering seasons. I checked out the flowers in season every month in some of their most famous places in and around Tokyo. I find myself wanting to do the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2011\/05\/behind-carpenter-hall\/>same thing now that I&#8217;m back home<\/a>, something that wasn&#8217;t high on my radar before.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of the <I>ume<\/I> (plum blossoms) at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/plum-blossoms-at-ikegami-baien\/>\u6c60\u4e0a\u6885\u5712<\/a>. Ume are far more impressive against a dark, stone lantern background than against an overcast sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year in Japan gave me a whole new perspective on the changing seasons, including the flowering seasons. I checked out the flowers in season every month in some of their most famous places in and around Tokyo. I find myself wanting to do the same thing now that I&#8217;m back home, something that wasn&#8217;t [&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":[264,224,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411"}],"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=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7415,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}