{"id":4227,"date":"2016-03-30T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T02:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:14:27","slug":"byodoin-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/03\/30\/byodoin-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Byodoin Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my speaking partner and I met up again and decided on going to see Byodoin Temple.<\/p>\n<p>But first we decided to eat lunch.<\/p>\n<p>So we wandered around near the station for a place to eat and came upon a matcha cafe. &nbsp;We both ended up ordering the same thing, funny enough, ending up with matcha soba and a matcha roll cake. &nbsp;You couldn&#8217;t really taste the matcha in the soba noodles, but you could taste more matcha in the broth.<\/p>\n<p>The cake was also really good, and it came with a matcha latte.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch we decided to make our way to the temple. &nbsp;We walked past a tone of small shops, mostly selling matcha and matcha flavored items.<\/p>\n<p>The temple itself was gorgeous. &nbsp;There were golden phoenix statues on top of the structure and the sun was shining against them, making the temple look amazing.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a small museum portion of the temple, where no photographs are allowed. &nbsp;There were multiple statues of &nbsp;Bodhisattva on clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there was an extra charge to go into the Phoenix Hall,&nbsp;so we didn&#8217;t make it into the Hall. &nbsp;The temple was gorgeous, nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my speaking partner and I met up again and decided on going to see Byodoin Temple. But first we decided to eat lunch. So we wandered around near the station for a place to eat and came upon a matcha cafe. &nbsp;We both ended up ordering the same thing, funny enough, ending up with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[105,200,205,313],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansai","tag-byodoin-temple","tag-japan","tag-kansai-gaidai","tag-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16705,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/16705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}