{"id":8206,"date":"2016-12-27T20:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T01:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2016-12-27T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T01:03:51","slug":"kitatama-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/kitatama-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitatama Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8208\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8208\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-Elementary-School.jpg\" alt=\"Kitatama ES\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-Elementary-School.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-Elementary-School-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-Elementary-School-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-Elementary-School-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighborhood school across the street and up the hill. Looks like a school, not a factory. Gardens on the school grounds, different than the US model (big parking lot and few windows)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8207\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8207\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-kitatama-brooms.jpg\" alt=\"brooms\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-kitatama-brooms.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-kitatama-brooms-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-kitatama-brooms-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-kitatama-brooms-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notable degree of cleanliness prevails. Possibly that training starts early? A commonly held societal value?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8209\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8209\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-nhood.jpg\" alt=\"residential streets\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-nhood.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-nhood-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-nhood-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161227-Kitatama-nhood-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hillside neighborhood is an oasis of quiet. The neighborhood streets are typically 12-14&#8242; wide. &#8220;Fire codes&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t allow this street typology in the US.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8210\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8210\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-little-pedestrians.jpg\" alt=\"Walking to school starts early.\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-little-pedestrians.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-little-pedestrians-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-little-pedestrians-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-little-pedestrians-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The practice of walking to school is nearly universal and starts early.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8211\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8211\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-kid-ped-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Car use around the school is restrict. The community assures that children walk, and that while walking they are safe.\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-kid-ped-sign.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-kid-ped-sign-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-kid-ped-sign-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161225-kid-ped-sign-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Car use around the school is restricted. The community assures that children walk, and that while walking they are safe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,29,24,62,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-culture","category-signs","category-strange-land","category-traffic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8212,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}