{"id":65,"date":"2005-05-03T18:50:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T22:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=65"},"modified":"2005-05-03T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T22:52:46","slug":"wistle-stop-himeji-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Wistle stop &#8211; Himeji Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have slowly recovered from jet lag, I have gone back to having way too many things on my to-do list. However, I don&#8217;t want to fall behind in my posts about Japan, so today I present you a brief description of Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle is interesting because, not only is it a really cool castle, it is also the oldest surviving castle in Japan. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/images\/Japan 2005 277.jpg\" alt=\"Panorama\" \/><br \/>\nPanoramic view of the Himeji Castle<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/images\/Japan 2005 257.jpg\" alt=\"Moat\" \/><br \/>\nA moat!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/images\/Japan 2005 260.jpg\" alt=\"Mannequins\" \/><br \/>\nWait, it&#8217;s the cat&#8217;s turn!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/images\/Japan 2005 262.jpg\" alt=\"Tile\" \/><br \/>\nEach round tile has the design of the castle owner at the time of construction or reconstruction. The butterfly crest was my favourite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/images\/Japan 2005 265.jpg\" alt=\"Arms\" \/><br \/>\nWhile the outlining structures were used as living quarters, the main building was intended to hold the army. On the second to last floor it even had hiding holes for the soldiers to attack the unsuspecting enemy. I don&#8217;t really understand that since, if the enemy has gotten through the entire castle, two guys hiding on the last floor are quite unlikely to turn the tide, no? Though, with the element of surprise, it just might work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/images\/Japan 2005 268.jpg\" alt=\"Reverse Panorama\" \/><br \/>\nView from the castle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/images\/Japan 2005 258.jpg\" alt=\"Castle grounds\" \/><br \/>\nThe field in front of the castle was full of people, there was even an Onda dancing competition in an adjoining grove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have slowly recovered from jet lag, I have gone back to having way too many things on my to-do list. However, I don&#8217;t want to fall behind in my posts about Japan, so today I present you a brief description of Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle is interesting because, not only is it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_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-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}