{"id":815,"date":"2010-08-07T22:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/?p=815"},"modified":"2010-08-07T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T13:54:16","slug":"is-there-really-such-a-high-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2010\/08\/07\/is-there-really-such-a-high-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there really such a high demand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided this week to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.higashiyama.city.nagoya.jp\/index_pc.php\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Night Zoo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at Higashiyama Koen<\/a>.  Usually I dislike zoos because I find it really sad to see animals just pacing back and forth and doing wacky things like butting their heads against a fence on every pass.  But, sometimes I have to have a goal or else I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just waste my time and all of a sudden it will be late Sunday night and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be depressed for the start of the work week.  So my goal was to hit the zoo.  I asked a friend if he wanted to join me at the last minute, but he was busy so it was solo for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/hzoo_1.jpg\" alt=\"Higashiyama Night Zoo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For some strange reason, I decided, even though the subway stops RIGHT at the zoo, that it would be a good idea to ride my bicycle to the zoo.  According to the Map application on my iPhone it is only 7.2 km from my apartment to the zoo.  No problem.  So I saddled up the \u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00aa and away I went.  Although I am sure this was not the case, it seems it was uphill with a headwind all the way there.<\/p>\n<p>I always like to carry my camera whenever I ride my bicycle because you never know what you might see above ground.  This time was no different.  Tonight, on the way home, I passed a balloon shop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/hzoo_ballstore.jpg\" alt=\"A balloon store\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right, a balloon shop.  Now I know where to go when I need balloons.  Talk about a specialty shop.  It is actually MORE than a balloon shop.  The do printing, balloon art, and planning.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure what balloon planning is, but they do it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/hzoo_ballart.jpg\" alt=\"Balloon art training\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for the zoo, it was as I expected.  Some animals looked happy, some looked sad.  Clearly the newer exhibits pay more attention to the needs of the animal.  It seems that wherever there is a pool for the animal to play in, they seem happier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/hzoo_2.jpg\" alt=\"The lonely rhinoceros\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided this week to visit the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Night Zoo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at Higashiyama Koen. Usually I dislike zoos because I find it really sad to see animals just pacing back and forth and doing wacky things like butting their heads against a fence on every pass. But, sometimes I have to have a goal or else I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2010\/08\/07\/is-there-really-such-a-high-demand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there really such a high demand?&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}