{"id":230,"date":"2008-03-05T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2015-10-26T02:40:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T17:40:29","slug":"vories-in-japan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/vories-in-japan-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Vories in Japan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Times printed a pretty interesting story about William Vories on Feb. 28, 2008:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fa20080228a1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fa20080228a1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The writer says that his architectural designs were not original. They were taken from existing styles of architecture. Of course, they were Western-style, so in Japan, those buildings stood out.<\/p>\n<p>Vories designed 1,091 buildings in Japan and South Korea, and today only about 100 remain. Omi-Hachiman has 28 buildings designed by Vories.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to seeing the inside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=143\" target=\"_blank\">Toyosato Primary School<\/a> when they open it to the public someday.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Update:\u00a0Toyosato Primary School opened to the public in May 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Times printed a pretty interesting story about William Vories on Feb. 28, 2008: http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fa20080228a1.html The writer says that his architectural designs were not original. They were taken from existing styles of architecture. Of course, they were Western-style, so&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-omihachiman","category-shigabrand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}