{"id":525,"date":"2010-02-02T03:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pedrozaplace.com\/blog1\/?p=525"},"modified":"2010-02-02T03:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:43:45","slug":"remembering-otaru-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/remembering-otaru-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Otaru, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/otaruriverhostfatherweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/otaruriverhostfatherweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Me and my host father in Otaru\" width=\"448\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-526\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was watching a youtube video about Otaru, Japan:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DUtViJEonvs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DUtViJEonvs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nand I was reminded of back in 1993 when I was a California Youth Ambassador and I had the opportunity to travel to Japan for a few months. Otaru was a very fun place to visit. I had very nice exchange hosts and they took me with them on their family vacation around the island of Hokkaido. I remember visiting the music box shop:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/musicbox1otaruweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/musicbox1otaruweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"musicboxshop\" width=\"448\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-527\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand the Glass Blowing Shop:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/glassblowingotaruweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/glassblowingotaruweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GlassBlowingShop\" width=\"448\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-528\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI often wonder if I will ever get the chance to go back.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, what are you dreaming about? See what others are dreaming about at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherofalltrips.com\/\">http:\/\/www.motherofalltrips.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching a youtube video about Otaru, Japan: and I was reminded of back in 1993 when I was a California Youth Ambassador and I had the opportunity to travel to Japan for a few months. Otaru was a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/remembering-otaru-japan\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}