{"id":12001,"date":"2010-06-03T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12001"},"modified":"2010-06-03T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:38:02","slug":"experience-japan-day-central-park-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/03\/experience-japan-day-central-park-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience Japan Day @ Central Park This Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poster2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12002\" title=\"poster2010\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poster2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0By <\/em><a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>JQ Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:magazine@jetaany.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the return of a modern tradition as Japan Day @ Central Park 2010 hits the East Meadow Sunday. With an array of free family-friendly and traditional activities, samplings of popular cuisine and powerful stage performances featuring entertainers from Tokyo and New York, this year\u2019s festivities are expected to top the estimated 45,000 New Yorkers drawn to last year\u2019s Japan Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Continuing in the custom of previous years, the day kicks off with the four-mile Japan Run mini-marathon at 8 a.m., followed by the Japanese Day Festival in the East Meadow at 10 a.m. with the unveiling of all activity tents and the main stage show. The year 2010 is especially promising\u2014it marks the 150th anniversary of the first Japanese diplomatic mission to New York\u2014and there will be special activities to celebrate this historic milestone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m6d3-Experience-Japan-Day--Central-Park-Sunday\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em> to read the rest of the article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0 It\u2019s the return of a modern tradition as Japan Day @ Central Park 2010 hits the East Meadow Sunday. With an array of free family-friendly and traditional activities, samplings of popular cuisine and powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japan-fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-37z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12003,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions\/12003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}