{"id":9068,"date":"2011-03-12T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T04:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2011-03-14T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:06:10","slug":"good-morning-from-tokyo_2011-03-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9068","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning from Tokyo_(2011.03.13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>7:02<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I woke up.\u00a0 Slept well.\u00a0 Not conscious of any sways or movements while at rest.\u00a0 No dreams either.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>This petite hotel is in a 5-storey building.\u00a0 There had been movements last night and just now (8:31 a.m.).\u00a0 Last night, I went downstairs to the front lobby to confirm that indeed it&#8217;s the earth, not me, that was shaking.\u00a0 Those Caucausian boys and girls sitting in the lobby working on their Wi-fi did not seem bothered by the movements.\u00a0 They looked at me like a weird creature when I enquired the front-desk about the sways.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Good to be on the first floor.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fast to run down in case of emergency.\u00a0 Put all essentials in one bag.\u00a0 That&#8217;s all\u00a0I will take when I need to &#8216;run&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Will plan my itinerary for today later depending on what transportation service is available.\u00a0 May test my legs for long walks.\u00a0\u00a0Will go back to Ueno Park to see if\u00a0there are more buds now for the cherry blossom.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>23:46<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Half an hour ago, I moved my flight out to Singapore ahead by a day&#8230; leaving tomorrow.\u00a0 The train to the airport is in operation &#8230;. confirmed in person at the station tonight.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The hotel is very quiet.\u00a0 The person at the front desk told me all the guests had checked out.\u00a0 This person is a French who has been in Tokyo for three years and\u00a0speaks fluent Japanese (with no accent!) said he isn&#8217;t scared&#8230;.not even the nuclear plant meltdown if and when it happens.\u00a0 He is very confident of the Japanese&#8217; ability to contain and control it.\u00a0 He has no intention of going back to France as he now calls Japan\u00a0his home.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Life on the street is as usual&#8230;.in Ikebukuro, in Shinjuku, in Tokyo, in Ginza&#8230;.my round of tours today and my walk of the day.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 7:02 \u00a0I woke up.\u00a0 Slept well.\u00a0 Not conscious of any sways or movements while at rest.\u00a0 No dreams either. \u00a0 This petite hotel is in a 5-storey building.\u00a0 There had been movements last night and just now (8:31 a.m.).\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,96],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-earthquake","category-travel","tag-rose-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9107,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}