{"id":6,"date":"2005-04-07T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-07\/6"},"modified":"2015-04-02T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:00:07","slug":"6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-07\/6","title":{"rendered":"It’s Tough Being a Cherry Blossom This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Season changes in Japan tend to arrive like clockwork, and few changes\nare as well predicted (and highly anticipated) as the blooming of the\ncherry blossoms (“sakura<\/a>”).\nA cherry<\/span>-blossom tree in full bloom is truly more\nthan the sum of its parts, presenting an almost unearthly, indescribable\nbeauty that no photograph can capture (although that doesn't stop hordes of\nboth amateur and professional photographers from trying, myself\nincluded.)<\/p>\n\n

Thus, it was with doubtless disappointment that the throngs of tourists\nthat descend upon Kyoto this past weekend (many, certainly, from all over\nJapan, with tours scheduled long in advance) were treated to chilly\nfall-like brisk winds and an unwelcome but quite manifest lack of cherry\nblossoms. If you looked<\/span> carefully, though, you could see a few<\/span> blossoms\nhere and there (of which the picture above is a pair<\/span>), but that's like\nseeing a few<\/span> dabs of paint (as opposed to a masterpiece<\/span> painting), so it's\nof little consolation.<\/p>\n\n

Yesterday (Wednesday) it was finally much warmer and there were a few<\/span>\nrare areas that were finally almost in full bloom. I went out<\/span> for a bike<\/span>\nride with Anthony<\/a> and Katsunori\nShimada, a long<\/span>-time friend, and we sat at a little\nplaza near Shijo\/Kawamachi<\/a> and it was just wonderful.<\/p>\n\n

I thought today might be The Day<\/em> that widespread blossomage\nmight happen, but it turns out that it's cold and rainy, so it seems that\nMother Nature has it in for the cherry-blossom viewing season this\nyear.<\/p>\n\n

From my front\ndoor<\/a> I can<\/span> see over to an area adjacent to where\nI'll be moving<\/a> in the fall, around where there are lots of cherry\ntrees. I can see<\/span> a half<\/span>-hearted attempt at blooming, with the current\nresult looking more like a molting<\/span> animal than the heavenly-soft puffs of\nbeauty all are looking forward to.<\/p>\n\n

Tomorrow and the next day are supposed to be sunny<\/a>\nbut not warm, with rain following on Sunday and into the week. Here's\nhoping we get lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Season changes in Japan tend to arrive like clockwork, and few changes are as well predicted (and highly anticipated) as the blooming of the cherry blossoms (\"sakura\"). A cherry-blossom tree in full bloom is truly more than the sum of its parts, presenting an almost unearthly, indescribable beauty that no photograph can capture (although that doesn't stop hordes of both amateur and professional photographers from trying, myself included.)<\/p>

Thus, it was with doubtless disappointment that the throngs of tourists that descend upon Kyoto this past weekend (many, certainly, from all over Japan, with tours scheduled long in advance) were treated [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}