{"id":2187,"date":"2013-12-29T06:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2013-12-29T06:24:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T14:24:26","slug":"the-new-year-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/29\/the-new-year-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Year countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Two more days to wrap up <strong>year 2013<\/strong>.\u00a0For most Japanese families, the real holiday spirit is felt during the time around <strong>New Year<\/strong>. Cities across Japan participate in this tradition in a number of ways. Here in Tokyo, people fix their eyes on a large electric bulletin board at Tokyo Tower as it changes from 2013 to 2014, or some\u00a0indoor\/outdoor musical event\u00a0&amp;\u00a0live\u00a0tv\u00a0program\u00a0for the<strong> New Year countdown<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/29\/the-new-year-countdown\/people-look-at-the-tokyo-tower-which-is-illuminated-to-celebrate-the-new-year-at-a-countdown-event-in-tokyo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2189\" alt=\"People look at  the Tokyo Tower which is illuminated to celebrate the New Year at a countdown event in Tokyo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ay100577413people-look-at-480x344.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ay100577413people-look-at-480x344.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ay100577413people-look-at-600x430.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ay100577413people-look-at.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more days to wrap up year 2013.\u00a0For most Japanese families, the real holiday spirit is felt during the time around New Year. Cities across Japan participate in this tradition in a number of ways. Here in Tokyo, people fix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/29\/the-new-year-countdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}