{"id":20,"date":"2009-05-31T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T04:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-07-01T00:13:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T05:13:51","slug":"japan-day-2009-central-park-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Japan Day 2009 Central Park NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Day is just another cultural day that New York City designates a day for any organization that wants to run an event. \u00a0This is the third year for this event. \u00a0Its goal is to showcase parts of Japanese Culture to the public. \u00a0Last year they had a performance by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halcali.com\/\">Halcali<\/a> which had ties to Anime themesongs. \u00a0But this year nothing was specifically related to Anime\/Manga.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have too much time but I dropped by Central Park to see the cosplayers that planned to show up. \u00a0 I needed to put in some time before AnimeNEXT rolls around\u00a0 into a lens  I just purchased the Lensbaby. \u00a0 Its a selective focus lens which only the &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; as the manufacturer calls it is in focus, the rest of the image is completely distorted.\u00a0 The lens is basically full manual control.\u00a0 I was kind of getting the slight hang of how the focus points work with the different lens openings.\u00a0 Its kinda fun to use.\u00a0 So while some of the photos came out really bad it at least gives me some practice getting it down. \u00a0\u00a0 While I&#8217;m working getting the gallery links working click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/photos\/main.php\/v\/jpnday2009\/\" target=\"_self\">HERE for Japan Day Photos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 31 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Day is just another cultural day that New York City designates a day for any organization that wants to run an event. \u00a0This is the third year for this event. \u00a0Its goal is to showcase parts of Japanese Culture to the public. \u00a0Last year they had a performance by &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conpics.ws\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}