{"id":260,"date":"2017-01-11T08:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/?p=260"},"modified":"2017-01-11T08:33:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:33:37","slug":"buddhist-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/kyoto\/buddhist-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I still haven&#8217;t fully adjusted to the jet lag, today I was once again surprised by how much energy I was able to sustain.\u00a0I find myself exhausted at the end of each day, but it&#8217;s a good feeling to know I made the most out of it. Today started off with Miyamoto-san&#8217;s home studio. Even the organization and decor of his house was beautiful. His artwork was amazing: unique, informed, and from the heart. Even though I am not an artist myself, my mom and step dad are both artists, so I understand a lot about the creative process. It is not an easy career path and can sometimes be a financial risk, so to meet an artist that is\u00a0so dedicated to his art was refreshing and wonderful. I specifically admired Miyamoto&#8217;s desire to always maintain the tradition of each statue, because as he said, it would virtually be meaningless without it.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, walking in the Arashiyama area was really nice. I had my first oyakodon which was delicious. Also, the matcha ice cream I had was at least 200% better than any matcha-flavored product that I&#8217;ve eaten in America. I don&#8217;t think I will ever eat another matcha-flavored food again unless I am in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying Kyoto so far, and appreciating just how unique and culturally significant a place like this is. I&#8217;ll definitely be back here the spring to see the cherry blossoms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I still haven&#8217;t fully adjusted to the jet lag, today I was once again surprised by how much energy I was able to sustain.\u00a0I find myself exhausted at the end of each day, but it&#8217;s a good feeling to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/kyoto\/buddhist-sculpture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyoto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/17w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}