{"id":60,"date":"2008-10-12T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T13:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2008\/10\/12\/fish-on-a-stick\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T13:14:23","slug":"fish-on-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2008\/10\/12\/fish-on-a-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish on a stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from the land of festivals.  I thought the festival season was over.  I was wrong.  I guess in Mito I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really pay attention to festivals because I was either on call or in Tokyo every weekend.  Tokyo isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really a festival kind of place.  But Nagoya \u00e2\u20ac\u201c oh Nagoya \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a festival is just what the doctor ordered.  So yes, it was Nagoya Festival this weekend.  Why?  I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know.  Saturday I was enjoyably lazy and had no idea that anything was going on because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get out until dinner time.  Since I found out that the festival was going on though, I figured I check it out today.<\/p>\n<p>But first, I had a real brunch this morning.  Yum.  My LA colleague\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother owns an Aussie Pub here in Nagoya that does a Sunday brunch.  I thought it was a good day for scrambled eggs on toast, with bacon, sausage, and home fries. Boy did that fill me up.  I just wish they had decaf coffee because that would have really been quite the brekkie.<\/p>\n<p>After watching the Japan F1 race on TV, I decided to check out the festival.  On the way home from brunch I noticed a parade.  It was a parade of floats \u00e2\u20ac\u201c people carry floats in costumes.  There was a marching band as well, and convertible cars with representatives from Nagoya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister cities (including Los Angeles, Sydney, and Mexico City).  I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see any Shriners but it gave me pause.<\/p>\n<p>I wandered around the festival a little bit.  It was, as I suspected, full of the usual suspects.  Various performing acts that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really make sense to me, lots of carnival games, and food stands.  I took some pictures because it always makes a blog more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>At the festival they had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fish on a stick\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the interest in trying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/fishonastick.jpg\" alt=\"A taste treat!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the other was fish on a stick, what in the heck is THIS?!?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/iwontask.jpg\" alt=\"I'm not going there!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The standard food stalls were available \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/nagfestival1.jpg\" alt=\"Typical view of any festival\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With standard grease heavily in use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/grease.jpg\" alt=\"A teppan is never far from oil\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the sky was kind of cool with Oasis 21 and the TV Tower.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/oasis21sky.jpg\" alt=\"An interesting late afternoon sky\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from the land of festivals. I thought the festival season was over. I was wrong. I guess in Mito I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really pay attention to festivals because I was either on call or in Tokyo every weekend. Tokyo isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really a festival kind of place. But Nagoya \u00e2\u20ac\u201c oh Nagoya \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a festival is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2008\/10\/12\/fish-on-a-stick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fish on a stick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}