{"id":317,"date":"2016-08-19T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2016-09-10T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T04:32:40","slug":"1157pm-nishishinjuku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"11:57pm, Nishishinjuku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><i>Pin-pon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I blink three or four times. After the bright fluorescence of the convenience store, my eyes take a few seconds to adjust to the rainy midnight streets. I squint upwards to regard the raindrops where they tumble into view past the lightbox sign of a 5<span class=\"s1\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span>-floor bar across the street. No heavier, but no lighter; set in until dawn by my estimation. I consider the bar, too. Time is running short, but a night of searching in this weather is like to bring nothing but a head cold. It is a nice thought &#8211; an hour or two on a comfortable stool hunched over a series of whiskey glasses in a warm smoky bar &#8211; but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let it linger. There will be much worse than a head cold to come\u00c2\u00a0if I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking for. I turn up my collar, tuck in my chin against the damp, and begin to walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pin-pon I blink three or four times. After the bright fluorescence of the convenience store, my eyes take a few seconds to adjust to the rainy midnight streets. I squint upwards to regard the raindrops where they tumble into view past the lightbox sign of a 5th-floor bar across the street. No heavier, but no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neonwinter.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}