{"id":340,"date":"2024-03-27T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T05:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/?post_type=riterment&#038;p=340"},"modified":"2024-05-18T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:55:03","slug":"banquet","status":"publish","type":"riterment","link":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/riterment\/banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry blossom viewing without cherry blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to cherry blossom viewing on March 27th.<br \/>\nThe cherry blossoms were in full bloom on March 27th last year.<br \/>\nHowever, this year, we decided to hold the cherry blossom viewing project about a week late, when not even a single cherry blossom had bloomed.<br \/>\nThe past week has been cold and there were many rainy days, but the 27th was miraculously sunny and warm.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"life_h4\">preparation unit<\/h4>\n<p>Cherry blossom viewing will be held at Kougaya Park from 11am.<br \/>\nAbout an hour beforehand, four volunteers gathered at the supermarket to buy and set up.<br \/>\nThe table I brought along came in handy.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"life_h4\">It starts at 11 o&#8217;clock<\/h4>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure how many people would show up because I had just announced the date and location on the mailing list.<br \/>\nPeople from Lifelong Classes, existing Japanese language classes, and the new Japanese language class &#8220;Nihongo Club&#8221; also participated, and the bonds were strengthened.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/555.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11647\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kogaya Park is located on a small hill with a two-tiered top and is said to be a famous spot for cherry blossom viewing.<br \/>\nWe set up on a low summit to avoid the effects of the wind.<br \/>\nAbout 6 people gathered at 11 o&#8217;clock, huh? As I was thinking about this, I received a call about 30 minutes later.<br \/>\nThe others seemed to be waiting for us on the high summit.<\/p>\n<p>We will overcome this incident (?) and continue to enjoy the warm and refreshing cherry blossom viewing without cherry blossoms.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/333.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The commemorative group photo was taken around 3pm, and the event lasted about 4 hours.<br \/>\nA total of 25 people who are involved in multicultural coexistence gathered and it was a fun gathering.<br \/>\nThank you to everyone who participated!<br \/>\nI would like to enjoy it under the cherry blossoms in full bloom next year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3270083-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80%\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11644\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to cherry blossom viewing on March 27th. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom on March 27th last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-340","riterment","type-riterment","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","party-banquet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/riterment\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/riterment"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/riterment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/riterment\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/riterment\/340\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kanagawa-lounge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}