{"id":1141,"date":"2009-04-11T17:13:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/a-few-more-photos-from-tokyo"},"modified":"2009-04-11T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T00:13:51","slug":"a-few-more-photos-from-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/a-few-more-photos-from-tokyo","title":{"rendered":"A Few More Photos from Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent most of our last day in Tokyo shopping. For the second time, Tracie managed to wear out a pair of boots while traipsing around Japan, and I needed some socks. (Tactical packing error: black pants, black shoes, white socks. Oops.) We went to the Matsuya Asakusa department store, the nearby-and-not-as-posh Rox complex, and a couple of smaller shops. Photos are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/sets\/72157616550922013\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I never fail to be amazed by the grace, patience, and friendliness exhibited by store clerks here when they&#8217;re dealing with foreigners with no command of their language such as myself. Imagine someone who speaks only Japanese trying to buy a pair of shoes in an upscale department store in a large city in the U.S. It just wouldn&#8217;t be pretty. Here they&#8217;ll literally run back and forth to assist you, even though the only things you can say in their language are &#8220;please&#8221; and &#8220;thank you&#8221; (and awkwardly at that).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent most of our last day in Tokyo shopping. For the second time, Tracie managed to wear out a pair of boots while traipsing around Japan, and I needed some socks. (Tactical packing error: black pants, black shoes, white socks. Oops.) We went to the Matsuya Asakusa department store, the nearby-and-not-as-posh Rox complex, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/a-few-more-photos-from-tokyo\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Few More Photos from Tokyo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-2009","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}