{"id":1822,"date":"2012-04-02T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2012-04-02T17:53:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:53:45","slug":"quick-update-from-kobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/quick-update-from-kobe","title":{"rendered":"Quick Update From Kobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now in Kobe, having traveled here by <em>shinkansen<\/em> from Tokyo yesterday. Sorry for the lack of bloggage but our days have been busy and I haven&#8217;t been particularly feeling like typing. The quick summary of events since my last post is that we went back to Ginza the next day for more strolling and window-shopping. We arrived in Kobe yesterday afternoon and poked around Chinatown and the nearby shopping areas. I fulfilled one of the quests for this trip, which was to obtain a new handle-less teapot for brewing <em>gyokuro<\/em>. Shortly we&#8217;re heading for more or less the same area, since we kind of whipped through part of it on the mistaken assumption that we&#8217;d pass through it on the way back. It&#8217;s raining today so we&#8217;ll mostly stick to the covered shopping streets.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snapshot of the view from our room, taken last night:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG 0702\" src=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/img_0702.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post some more photos tonight, along with some observations about how knowing a little bit of a foreign language is at least as confusing as knowing none at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now in Kobe, having traveled here by shinkansen from Tokyo yesterday. Sorry for the lack of bloggage but our days have been busy and I haven&#8217;t been particularly feeling like typing. The quick summary of events since my last post is that we went back to Ginza the next day for more strolling and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/quick-update-from-kobe\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quick Update From 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan2012","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}