{"id":38,"date":"2008-08-13T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~espeed\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/obon-week\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:00:10","slug":"obon-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/obon-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Obon Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I posted which is unfortunate, but generally my day has consisted of: getting up, going to work, working, going out, sleeping, repeat.\u00a0 This leaves little time for awesome blog posts.\u00a0 Also, since I&#8217;m not out exploring like last year, my day is more routine and less hot touristy action.\u00a0 On a positive note, I did update my last blog post with pictures, so you can go check that out if you want.<\/p>\n<p>This week, however, I&#8217;m on\u00a0vacation because it&#8217;s Obon week.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the week that the Japanese return to their homes in the countryside and light laterns to guide the spirits of the dead back home.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like Mexico&#8217;s Day of the Dead, but in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m technically on vacation (literally as well\u00a0until today or possibly tomorrow at least), my project deadline is coming up and it&#8217;s hard for me not to think about work.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure I can&#8217;t just go to work legitimately, but who&#8217;s to stop me form stopping by when I&#8217;m in the neighborhood, just to check on things.<\/p>\n<p>In anycase, this is a vacation and I&#8217;ll probably update with interesting things sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile since I posted which is unfortunate, but generally my day has consisted of: getting up, going to work, working, going out, sleeping, repeat.\u00a0 This leaves little time for awesome blog posts.\u00a0 Also, since I&#8217;m not out exploring like last year, my day is more routine and less hot touristy action.\u00a0 On a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[4,36,37,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}