{"id":971,"date":"2011-10-15T23:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T04:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:46:57","slug":"mall-ed-on-a-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Mall-ed on a Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to go to Nagoya today for the big festival, but it was cancelled due to rain. They&#8217;ll just do everything tomorrow, when the weather is better.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually started going stir crazy, so I went to the mall today for the first time since I came back to Okazaki.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to walk, since it was raining off and on, and I didn&#8217;t want to mess with the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>On the way out, I was greeted by a somewhat unsettlingly large mass of birds near the apartments.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Birds! (Wide shot) by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8561147106\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8506\/8561147106_20831226b8_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Birds! (Wide shot)\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Birds! by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8560039997\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8235\/8560039997_ffe6a640c9_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Birds!\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I headed to Aeon Mall. It takes a while to get there on foot.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to the mall, I went by Aeon to buy some ink, paper, erasers, notebooks, and stuff like that. Then I wandered around a bit and checked out the bookstore. It&#8217;s big, but I couldn&#8217;t find what I wanted. (I&#8217;m always on the lookout for grammar or JLPT books.)<\/p>\n<p>The mall has a huge selection of restaurants on the bottom floor. I&#8217;ll have to check some of those out when I have time&#8230; hey! A Subway! Okay, that&#8217;s pretty American of me to notice the Subway, but it&#8217;s been 2 weeks now since I&#8217;ve had anthing from my home country. Maybe next time I pass through here, I&#8217;ll pick up a sub.<\/p>\n<p>I headed over to the bookstore on the way to the mall. It&#8217;s along the main highway. It&#8217;s small, but it has a pretty good manga section, and I was running out, so I reloaded on some new tankoubons to read.<\/p>\n<p>Then back home to dry off.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back, I saw this church:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Church at Night by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8561147496\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8382\/8561147496_8c34792388_z.jpg\" alt=\"Church at Night\" width=\"481\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, it&#8217;s blurry, but it was kind of cool how the cross lit up the night.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow it&#8217;s the Nagoya parades, weather permitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nagoya Matsuri was cancelled today due to rain, so I went to Aeon Mall in Okazaki. A lot of other people had the same idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,75,823,5],"tags":[541,543,544,894,828,100,542,895],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-photography","category-photos","category-travel","tag-aeon-mall","tag-birds","tag-churches","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-okazaki","tag-shopping","tag-travel","category-3-id","category-75-id","category-823-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}