{"id":253,"date":"2008-10-04T22:28:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T06:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2008\/10\/yamanote-dress-rehearsal-take-one\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T06:28:31","slug":"yamanote-dress-rehearsal-take-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2008\/10\/yamanote-dress-rehearsal-take-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamanote dress rehearsal: take one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KICX2148.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/files\/2009\/03\/kicx2148.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My son and I constructed a Japan Railways Yamanote subway (runs in Tokyo) costume from cardboard boxes, paper and paint. This is his favorite train of all trains, hands down. We got the idea from a Japanese TV commercial he loves on YouTube. Here he is testing out the pilot study. We will try to find a black cap and a nice black suit at the thrift store, so he looks the part of the train conductor.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am well aware no Minnesotans will realize what he is dressed up as for Halloween. They will think he&#8217;s a bus, probably, or the lightrail at best. Yet as long as my son knows and I know and his dad knows&#8211;that&#8217;s just fine with us.<\/p>\n<p>[Front view&#8230; but it still lacks kanji detailing which station its running toward on the loop line in Tokyo&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son and I constructed a Japan Railways Yamanote subway (runs in Tokyo) costume from cardboard boxes, paper and paint. This is his favorite train of all trains, hands down. We got the idea from a Japanese TV commercial he loves on YouTube. Here he is testing out the pilot study. We will try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordinary-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}