{"id":9152,"date":"2012-03-07T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9152"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:10:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:10:43","slug":"ueno-parks-lotus-pond-and-benten-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/ueno-parks-lotus-pond-and-benten-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ueno Park&#8217;s Lotus Pond and Benten Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1020666ueno-benten-hall-shrine-park-lotus-pond1.jpg><img src=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/P1020666ueno-benten-hall-shrine-park-lotus-pond1-800x450.jpg alt=\"ueno benten hall shrine park lotus pond \u84ee\u306e\u6c60 hasu no ike \u4e0d\u5fcd\u6c60\" title=\"ueno benten hall shrine park lotus pond\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lotus Pond (\u84ee\u306e\u6c60 or hasu no ike) in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/ueno-park-part-2\/>Ueno Park<\/a> can be absolutely ugly (and smelly) for parts of the year, but in early July, when I took this photo, the lotus was at its peak. Benten Hall (\u5f01\u5929\u5802) can be seen in the middle of the Shinobazu Pond (\u4e0d\u5fcd\u6c60).<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be long before we, even those of us in the West, hear news reports about cherry blossom viewing in Ueno Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus Pond (\u84ee\u306e\u6c60 or hasu no ike) in Ueno Park can be absolutely ugly (and smelly) for parts of the year, but in early July, when I took this photo, the lotus was at its peak. Benten Hall (\u5f01\u5929\u5802) can be seen in the middle of the Shinobazu Pond (\u4e0d\u5fcd\u6c60). It won&#8217;t be long [&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":[184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152"}],"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=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11270,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions\/11270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}