{"id":3548,"date":"2016-05-10T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:54:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:54:25","slug":"may-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"May update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a proper post in May and in order to preserve some memories from this time of the year, herewith some photos taken over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3549 alignnone\" alt=\"2016may05\" src=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may05-580x435.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may05-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may05-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may05.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taipei April 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We went to Taipei where I attended a great conference on urban heritage. Besides presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=3534\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=3523\">paper<\/a> ideas (so far none of which has progressed further than the idea stage&#8230;) we did a lot of sightseeing and food tasting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3550 alignnone\" alt=\"2016may04\" src=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may04-580x773.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may04-580x773.jpg 580w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may04-940x1253.jpg 940w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may04.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from a boozy trip to a jazz bar a few years ago, we had never really explored Yokohama. This Golden Week&#8217;s Thursday we set out for a day trip. We found the ramen museum crazy busy that day, but what a great re-enactment of postwar Showa-era Japan! The emigration museum and a quick stopover in Chinatown rounded off the day. Definitely worth returning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3551 alignnone\" alt=\"2016may03\" src=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may03-580x435.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may03-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may03-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may03.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went camping for a night in Hinohara, still nominally part of Tokyo but totally rural in setting already. How great to leave the city so quickly and see monkeys dangle in the trees on the opposite river bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"2016may01\" src=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may01-580x435.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of my days involve this, a walk from Shinanomachi station to my university. It takes me through this park, which I have grown fond of over the seasons. Above a shot during a particularly gloomy day. And yet this stretch is always uplifting regardless of the weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3552 alignnone\" alt=\"2016may02\" src=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may02-580x438.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may02-580x438.jpg 580w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may02-940x711.jpg 940w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may02.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016may01.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When on my way to my supervisor, I take the lift up to the tenth floor of my university and get a nice view of Roppongi, replete with a glimpse of our past stomping grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a proper post in May and in order to preserve some memories from this time of the year, herewith some photos taken over the past couple of weeks. Taipei April 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}