{"id":8712,"date":"2019-08-08T01:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T05:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=8712"},"modified":"2019-08-08T01:09:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T05:09:12","slug":"first-visit-to-the-hypocenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/first-visit-to-the-hypocenter\/","title":{"rendered":"First visit to the hypocenter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>..Nagasaki September 7th,2008..<br>One hour after train ride, little before sunset. First time at the hypocenter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>..I thought the hypocenter would have drawn more of a crowd. Only 2 ladies and a father playing with his son wandering across the spot where one of the world&#8217;s greatest atrocities took place. The grass was very thin and spotted yellow from a summer long soaking of intense sunshine. Looked like any park in a forgotten neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>..September 8th, 2007 Second time at the epicenter, Nagasaki..<br>Walked to the epicenter at 6:30AM. A Japanese man walking across the park. Stops and bows in front of the monument. A deep bow. A sign of great respect. Continues to his destination. I wonder if this is how he starts most of his days?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-044.jpg\" alt=\"Documents 044\" class=\"wp-image-707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-044.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-044-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..Nagasaki September 7th,2008..One hour after train ride, little before sunset. First time at the hypocenter ..I thought the hypocenter would have drawn more of a crowd. Only 2 ladies and a father playing with his son wandering across the spot where one of the world&#8217;s greatest atrocities took place. The grass was very thin and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109,100],"tags":[576,574,555,571],"class_list":["post-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-nagasaki","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-hypocenter-nagasaki","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8715,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/8715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}