{"id":5085,"date":"2019-06-13T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:40:18","slug":"the-tokyo-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/the-tokyo-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tokyo Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ee-big-quote wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;On a macro level, Tokyo isn\u2019t a beautiful city. It encompasses a riot of architectural styles in full embrace of kitsch. A postwar wooden yakitori joint might be shoehorned between a newly poured\u00a0<em>mansion<\/em>\u00a0of exposed concrete and a megawatt pachinko parlor of mirror chrome. Add to this lexicon vast forests of neon, fluorescent and LED signs, overlay a spaghetti canopy of power lines, crisscross it all with railways, ring roads and cramped lanes, and you get an idea of the city\u2019s built environment. And don\u2019t forget the people: 13.7 million of them, living in the heart of a greater metropolitan area of 38 million.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kinfolk Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[786],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-kinfolk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}