{"id":710,"date":"2009-08-13T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2010-03-20T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T04:40:11","slug":"sitting-in-my-hotel-room-staring-at-a-tv-that-only-speaks-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/sitting-in-my-hotel-room-staring-at-a-tv-that-only-speaks-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting in my hotel room staring at a tv that only speaks Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..September 2008    Nagasaki..<br \/>\n8:02PM  Hotel Room across from the museum.  Sitting on the bed<\/p>\n<p>My first night in Nagasaki.  Sitting in my hotel room staring at a tv that only speaks Japanese.  Outside the window I have a view of the atomic bomb epicenter.  64 years ago death and destruction reeked outside.  Now I&#8217;m sitting in a business hotel a 1\/2 block away.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve traveled for 2 straight days.  16 hour flight New York to Tokyo.  5 hours sleep, 9 hours Tokyo to Nagasaki by train.  It&#8217;s 8:00PM, I&#8217;m exhausted and curious about who I&#8217;ll meet in the morning when I start the first portraits.  What will they say?  Will they be offended I&#8217;m American?  <\/p>\n<p>..Nagasaki..<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s pitch black outside the window.  I can&#8217;t keep my eyes open.  My body has traveled half the globe.  ET on the tv dubbed in Japanese.  Wake-up early.  Walk around the epicenter.  Get ready for portraits.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-045.jpg\" alt=\"Documents 045\" title=\"Documents 045\" width=\"512\" height=\"832\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-045.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Documents-045-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntry {\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-12680478-1\");\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n} catch(err) {}<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..September 2008 Nagasaki.. 8:02PM Hotel Room across from the museum. Sitting on the bed My first night in Nagasaki. Sitting in my hotel room staring at a tv that only speaks Japanese. Outside the window I have a view of the atomic bomb epicenter. 64 years ago death and destruction reeked outside. Now I&#8217;m sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109,100],"tags":[576,574,126,571],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-nagasaki","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-epi-center-nagasaki","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}