{"id":63,"date":"2005-02-12T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T02:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/02\/12\/is-there-an-expo-happening\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T00:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:44:53","slug":"is-there-an-expo-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/02\/12\/is-there-an-expo-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there an Expo happening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-800 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/expo_coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Expo coffee\" width=\"180\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/expo_coffee.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/expo_coffee-153x300.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>2005 is the year of the Aichi Expo (<a title=\"Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expo2005.or.jp\/\">Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan<\/a>) which has been in the pipeline for a while. Work, plans, other countries announcing they&#8217;re participating have been going on for over 4 years. Looking at the site\/grounds (from the expo home page) it&#8217;d be wrong to say that a lot of work hasn&#8217;t been done. Far from it &#8211; a lot has been done.<\/p>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be much in the way of &#8220;advertising&#8221; for it. Sure there are one of two posters around the place and pictures of <a title=\"Morizo and Kiccoro (Japanese).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.morizo-kiccoro.jp\/\">Morizo and Kiccoro<\/a>, the expo mascots on labels of various food items. But that&#8217;s really it.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that you wouldn&#8217;t really know it was happening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;ll leave you with the words found on the jar of UCC The Blend Taste No. 117 &#8220;Expo Coffee&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This flavor (sic) holds the blending expertise accumulated for half a century of the making of regular ground coffee.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2005 is the year of the Aichi Expo (Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan) which has been in the pipeline for a while. Work, plans, other countries announcing they&#8217;re participating have been going on for over 4 years. Looking at the site\/grounds (from the expo home page) it&#8217;d be wrong to say that a lot of work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,252],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-aichiexpo-","tag-coffee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}