{"id":36473,"date":"2016-01-13T17:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=36473"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:44:13","slug":"welcoming-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/36473","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming the new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Waseda Campus and Anahachiman Shrine: January 2016<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160108_01.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child flying a kite in front of Okuma Auditorium<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160108_02.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group visiting Waseda after New Year\u2019s Day<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160108_03.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waseda\u2019s Oenbu practicing in preparation for the Ekiden (long-distance relay running race) that was held on January 2<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160108_04.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shimenawa (rope used to ward off evil in Japan\u2019s indigenous Shinto religion) at a construction site for new classrooms on Waseda-Dori<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we welcome the new year, we hope to brighten your day by continuing to bring you snapshots of the Waseda neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Campus is once again bustling with activity now that the New Year\u2019s Holiday has ended. \u00a0\u00a0Students are busy writing term papers and studying for final examinations. We wish students the best of luck on their upcoming exams.<\/p>\n<p>Entrance examinations for prospective students will be held in February. For examinees, this is the final stretch of their preparatory studies. We encourage everyone to take care of their health as their examination date approaches.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this year of the monkey brings everyone happiness and success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Waseda Campus and Anahachiman Shrine: January 2016 As we welcome the new year, we hope to brighten your d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-36473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-campus_scenes-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}