{"id":124,"date":"1999-04-20T11:03:13","date_gmt":"1999-04-20T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2017-11-05T08:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T08:03:57","slug":"flower-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/124","title":{"rendered":"Flower Viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;mita? sakura ga saita,&#8221;<\/em> said each person as they came in, tones reverent. Did you see? The cherry flowers blossomed. All day, the office buzzed with a peculiar mix of anticipation, serenity and excitement, and wandering around the city that evening, I felt the same atmosphere on every street corner. In my head, I saw colour sweeping the country from the south. In less than three weeks, it would all be gone. I was determined to enjoy the time fully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;mita? sakura ga saita,&#8221; said each person as they came in, tones reverent. Did you see? The cherry flowers blossomed. All day, the office buzzed with a peculiar mix of anticipation, serenity and excitement, and wandering around the city that evening, I felt the same atmosphere on every street corner. In my head, I saw&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/124\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flower Viewing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}