{"id":7175,"date":"2023-09-06T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2023-09-06T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:08:09","slug":"emperor-meiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/06\/emperor-meiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor Meiji"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was in Tokyo for a week.\u00a0The country surprised me on many fronts in a good way.\u00a0\u00a0The person who gets credit for its modernization is\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emperor_Meiji\">Emperor Meiji\u00a0<\/a>The progress of the country in becoming a superpower goes to him. I visited\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meiji_Shrine\">the Meiji Shrine\u00a0<\/a>on the last day of my stay. It was in the middle of a city and built after his death. I get goosebumps thinking at how a person changed the fate of future generations with his farsightedness. So much to learn about him for all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are living in a divided world where democratic leaders are busy building their statues instead of changing our fate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meiji Shrine (\u660e\u6cbb\u795e\u5bae, Meiji Jing\u016b) is a shrine dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his consort, Empress Shoken. The Emperor was the force behind new and industrialised Japan. \ud83e\udef6\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\ude3b\ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eEovOsi63k\">pic.twitter.com\/eEovOsi63k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1698586663734427970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Tokyo for a week.\u00a0The country surprised me on many fronts in a good way.\u00a0\u00a0The person who gets credit for its modernization is\u00a0Emperor Meiji\u00a0The progress of the country in becoming a superpower goes to him. I visited\u00a0the Meiji Shrine\u00a0on the last day of my stay. It was in the middle of a city &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/06\/emperor-meiji\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emperor Meiji&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}