{"id":384,"date":"2011-12-04T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T09:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=384"},"modified":"2011-12-04T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T11:15:10","slug":"the-night-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"The Night Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On my first, daylight visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asakusa\"><strong>Asakusa<\/strong><\/a> I was short of time, the rain was slashing down and the place was packed. My second was much nicer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-385\" title=\"Kaminarimon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kaminarimon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kaminarimon.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Kaminarimon-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The crowds were almost gone, so the souvenir and snack shops of <strong>Nakamise Street<\/strong> were closing up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-386\" title=\"NakamiseStreet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NakamiseStreet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NakamiseStreet.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NakamiseStreet-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;but in their night-time lighting the temple buildings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-388\" title=\"Sensoji\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sensoji.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sensoji.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Sensoji-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;looked <strong>magical<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-389\" title=\"Nitemon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nitemon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nitemon.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nitemon-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This, below, is a view of the north (back) face of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H%C5%8Dz%C5%8Dmon\"><strong>Hozomon<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-393\" title=\"Hozomon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hozomon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hozomon.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Hozomon-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See those giant sandals? They belong to the Buddha&#8217;s bodyguards, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ni%C5%8D\"><strong>Nio<\/strong><\/a>. Everyone else might be heading home, but at each gate the Nio were still <strong>standing watch against evil<\/strong>, ready at any moment to <strong>come to life&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-390\" title=\"Nio1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230; and take their <strong>full size<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-391\" title=\"Nio2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio2.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio2-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;with <strong>swift and<\/strong> <strong>horrifying consequences<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-392\" title=\"Nio3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio3.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Nio3-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I could see it would be prudent to keep any evil thoughts to myself. ;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my first, daylight visit to Asakusa I was short of time, the rain was slashing down and the place was packed. My second was much nicer. The crowds were almost gone, so the souvenir and snack shops of Nakamise Street were closing up&#8230; &#8230;but in their night-time lighting the temple buildings&#8230; &#8230;looked magical. This, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}