{"id":1145,"date":"2009-04-14T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/a-day-in-kobe"},"modified":"2009-04-14T02:36:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:36:47","slug":"a-day-in-kobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/a-day-in-kobe","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Kobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was going to write something interesting about the day we spent in Kobe yesterday, but it turns out that I was wrong. The short and uninteresting version is that we visited an English-style herb and flower garden (demonstrating the remarkable flair for imitation that the Japanese can summon) which we reached by &#8220;ropeway&#8221;. Then we went to a series of greenhouses containing what must be the largest collection of fuscias on the planet, along with a completely dazzling array of other flowering plants, a pink flamingo, several hornbills, a bunch of toucans, and half a dozen owls. (Yes, toucans. Yes, owls.) At the end of the day we had dinner with Sid his wife at a restaurant with a spectacular view that specializes in tofu. (Yes, tofu. &#8220;Tofu on parade!&#8221; as Sid put it. It was actually very good.) Photos are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/studionebula\/sets\/72157616654824759\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Tracie has selected the photos for the last several sets we&#8217;ve put up here so you have her to thank for the ongoing photo coverage of our visit here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was going to write something interesting about the day we spent in Kobe yesterday, but it turns out that I was wrong. The short and uninteresting version is that we visited an English-style herb and flower garden (demonstrating the remarkable flair for imitation that the Japanese can summon) which we reached by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/a-day-in-kobe\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Day in Kobe<\/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-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-2009","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}