{"id":7530,"date":"2011-06-02T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2011-06-02T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:30:45","slug":"w-is-for-waseda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/w-is-for-waseda\/","title":{"rendered":"W is for Waseda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/02144054trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/02144054trim-737x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"shortcut path road waseda university from takadanobaba\" width=\"737\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/02144054trim-737x800.jpg 737w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/02144054trim-230x250.jpg 230w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/02144054trim.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the first day of school there is always a little bit of excitement in the air. In Japan it is even a bit more exciting as it comes when the weather is getting better and the cherry blossoms are blooming (beginning of April). To get your heart beating even a little more, <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/waseda-university\/>Waseda University<\/a> in Tokyo lines the walkways to campus with these W banners. I took this nameless, <a href=http:\/\/yj.pn\/C-v5p6 target=_new>shortcut road<\/a> into campus (from the Takadanobaba direction) hundreds of times last year. I ate at several of the little, mom-and-pop restaurants and bento shops along the way. Just the thought of this little path brings a smile to my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of school there is always a little bit of excitement in the air. In Japan it is even a bit more exciting as it comes when the weather is getting better and the cherry blossoms are blooming (beginning of April). To get your heart beating even a little more, Waseda University [&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":[151,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530"}],"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=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7533,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions\/7533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}