{"id":669,"date":"2007-12-24T23:31:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-12-24\/669"},"modified":"2007-12-24T23:31:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T14:31:27","slug":"christmas-eve-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-12-24\/669","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>As we have done in the past, we started our Christmas by taking in the\nfree Christmas-Eve concert in the lobby of the <a\nclass='quiet'\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.kyotohotel.co.jp\/khokura\/english\/\">Kyoto Hotel Okura<\/a>,\nour fourth year in <span class='nobr'>a row<\/span> (having done it in <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2006-12-25\/314\">2006<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2005-12-25\/120\">2005<\/a>, and <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/pic.regex.info\/amf\/2004-12-24\">2004<\/a>). Fumie's dad is in Malaysia at the moment, so her mom joined us as well.<\/p>\n\n<p>Prior to the concert, the hotel passes out free champaign and\njuice....<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='042673' href=\"\/i\/JEF_042673.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_042673_sm.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Sharp-Dressed Elf -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i042673\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\ntitle=\"Sharp-Dressed Elf -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>90 sec, f\/1.4, ISO 1600 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_042673.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_042673.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Sharp-Dressed Elf<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Then there's the concert. This time was <span class='nobr'>a very<\/span> nice choir of about 50\nkids, but unfortunately, they brought their families so even though we got\nthere very early, there wasn't <span class='nobr'>a chair<\/span> to be had anywhere.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='042682' href=\"\/i\/JEF_042682.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_042682_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Sold Out -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i042682\"\ntitle=\"Sold Out -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 17mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>45 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 3200 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_042682.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_042682.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Sold Out<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Later, we asked one of the hotel staff to take our picture, but the\nquality of the result reflected its low price...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='042687' href=\"\/i\/JEF_042687.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_042687_sm.jpg\" width=\"469\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Fuzzy Christmas Eve -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i042687\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\ntitle=\"Fuzzy Christmas Eve -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>60 sec, f\/1.4, ISO 800 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_042687.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_042687.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Fuzzy Christmas Eve<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>We brought home a huge roast-beef meal from the hotel kitchen. <span class='nobr'>It was excellent<\/span>, but the star were the au gratin potatoes. I've had some\nexcellent au gratin potatoes in my life, but sorry Mom, these were by far\nthe best. <span class='nobr'>If you ever<\/span> get <span class='nobr'>a chance<\/span> to visit Kyoto's Hotel Okura, try the au\ngratin potatoes.<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n  \/* 669 *\/\n<\/style>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have done in the past, we started our Christmas by taking in the free Christmas-Eve concert in the lobby of the Kyoto Hotel Okura, our fourth year in a row (having done it in 2006, 2005, and 2004). Fumie's dad is in Malaysia at the moment, so her mom joined us as well.<\/p> <p>Prior to the concert, the hotel passes out free champaign and juice....<\/p> <p>Then there's the concert. This time was a very nice choir of about 50 kids, but unfortunately, they brought their families so even though we got there very early, there wasn't a chair [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}