{"id":922,"date":"2008-05-16T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/returning-a-favor"},"modified":"2008-05-16T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:30:10","slug":"returning-a-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/returning-a-favor","title":{"rendered":"Returning a Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably obvious by now that my attention has been drawn away from this blog. Much to my surprise we&#8217;ve been home for two weeks now; honestly it feels more like a week. Between the various demands of getting back into the swing with both businesses and with the unusual circumstances of Tracie&#8217;s mother residing here (still) because of her health problems, I just haven&#8217;t had the time, energy, and\/or inclination to blog much. At this point I&#8217;m going to stop berating myself, gracefully acknowledge the reality of the situation, and try to bring the accounts of our Japan adventures to a close today.<\/p>\n<p>Tracie has waded through the ~2000 photos I took and picked out the best ones, grouped by city. I&#8217;m in the process of uploading them to my photo gallery; I&#8217;ll post a note and a link when they&#8217;re all available.<\/p>\n<p>The favor I mentioned was bestowed upon us by the proprietress of a little restaurant in Tokyo. I don&#8217;t know the name of the place or the name of the street it&#8217;s on, but here&#8217;s her business card: <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"264\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/image-7.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in Asakusa, on the narrow street that runs behind the amusement park near the Senso-ji temple. One end of the street meets a much larger street; it meets it directly across from the Asakusa View hotel. There&#8217;s also a pachinko parlor and what we think is an adult movie theatre on the same street. If you&#8217;re in the neighborhood and are looking for a nice bowl of <em>soba<\/em>, stop in and tell Akiko-san that the American tourists said to say hi and thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably obvious by now that my attention has been drawn away from this blog. Much to my surprise we&#8217;ve been home for two weeks now; honestly it feels more like a week. Between the various demands of getting back into the swing with both businesses and with the unusual circumstances of Tracie&#8217;s mother residing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/returning-a-favor\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Returning a Favor<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip-2008","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}