{"id":157,"date":"2009-08-03T23:56:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2009-08-03T23:56:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:56:21","slug":"hits-and-misses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Hits and misses (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More thoughts on staying and going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hits (as in, coolness)<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sumida river fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_hdVsr90J9m0\/SnbzVou0_mI\/AAAAAAAAY0c\/r4YtDt-zqdA\/s128\/hanabi%2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"128\" \/> Fireworks!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Fireworks at Sumida river\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_hdVsr90J9m0\/SnbzQM7OcfI\/AAAAAAAAYz4\/Hu4731ozPjo\/s512\/hanabi%2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"307\" \/> Fireworks<\/p>\n<p>umm&#8230;and fireworks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sumida river fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_hdVsr90J9m0\/SnbzHTVuiDI\/AAAAAAAAYzA\/WMlTTOxx5cA\/s800\/hanabi%2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sumida river fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_hdVsr90J9m0\/SnbzJZn_wpI\/AAAAAAAAYzQ\/hkXu0YYAL0c\/s800\/hanabi%2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Misses (as in, stuff I miss)<\/strong><br \/>\nHaving real speakers instead of laptop ones<br \/>\nHaving a non-itchy nose (Is it the detergent? The AC? The office? Who knows&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But back to the fireworks!\u00c2\u00a0 Sumida river&#8217;s fireworks festival\/hanabi taikai (literally, fire flower big event) is one of the biggest in Tokyo.\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s awesome is Japanese people love fireworks, and lots of cities have these festivals. There are<a href=\"http:\/\/hanabi.e-tsl.net\/\"> 12 within the 23 Tokyo city wards alone, plus a bunch more<\/a> in the Kanto area.\u00c2\u00a0 Annd they publish the # of fireworks getting launched at each one, so you can identify the biggies!<\/p>\n<p>They sell sparklers and stuff at the supermarket too. Fireworks, friends, and fooood. Kind of impossible to not be super happy with that triple threat combo.\u00c2\u00a0 I contributed Tabish&#8217;s banana bread.\u00c2\u00a0 Was well received, of course.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sumida river fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_hdVsr90J9m0\/Snby8D-eQmI\/AAAAAAAAYyI\/PdkDZ-_GYJs\/s800\/hanabi%206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gonna have to have me another little party sometime soon, methinks.\u00c2\u00a0 Heh, after I check out the one at Meiji Jingu this Thursday.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hanabi.e-tsl.net\/cat_0\/ent_9.html\">Clocks in at a pretty sizable 10,000 fizzies<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Really&#8230;you can&#8217;t have too enough of sparkly lights and good company.\u00c2\u00a0 No pics to take at this one though.\u00c2\u00a0 SLR is out on loan for the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More thoughts on staying and going. Hits (as in, coolness) Fireworks! Fireworks umm&#8230;and fireworks. Misses (as in, stuff I miss) Having real speakers instead of laptop ones Having a non-itchy nose (Is it the detergent? The AC? The office? Who knows&#8230;) But back to the fireworks!\u00c2\u00a0 Sumida river&#8217;s fireworks festival\/hanabi taikai (literally, fire flower big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WqcV-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.audreyy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}