{"id":152,"date":"2004-02-23T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/02\/its-gonna-be-a-bright-bright-sunshiny-day\/"},"modified":"2004-02-23T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T15:21:54","slug":"its-gonna-be-a-bright-bright-sunshiny-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/02\/23\/its-gonna-be-a-bright-bright-sunshiny-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Gonna Be A Bright, Bright Sunshiny Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calderarim.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/calderarim.jpg\" width=\"672\" height=\"397\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The rim of the largest caldera in the world, overlooking Aso-machi. If you look closely<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"asocalderasmoke.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/asocalderasmoke.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"84\" border=\"0\" \/>,<br \/>\nyou can see steam rising from Aso-san. Sulphuric fumes released from the top of Aso kill a couple of people each year, mostly the old or sick. Recently Aso mountain has been acting a bit &#8220;sassy&#8221;, and so sometimes you can&#8217;t go up (depending on how the volcano has been feeling recently).<\/i><br \/>\nLately the weather has warmed up considerably to the point where I can comfortably wear two layers of clothes in the mountains, and a shirt and shorts in the city! Bugs have begun to come out of hibernation and are slowly making a comeback. I can no longer use my whole kitchen as a giant refrigerator. The snow is disappearing slowly, although the shady sections of the roads remain slick and dangerous (last year, around this time, a friend of mine flipped his car on a warm, sunny afternoon and had to get driven to the airport so that he could make it up to Osaka to watch J5 perform). Hanami is just around the corner, and I think that I am finally getting over my cold (that I caught right when I came back from Korea). Its Monday and I&#8217;m exhausted already, but at least we have good weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rim of the largest caldera in the world, overlooking Aso-machi. If you look closely, you can see steam rising from Aso-san. Sulphuric fumes released from the top of Aso kill a couple of people each year, mostly the old or sick. Recently Aso mountain has been acting a bit &#8220;sassy&#8221;, and so sometimes you &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/02\/23\/its-gonna-be-a-bright-bright-sunshiny-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-kyushu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}