{"id":307,"date":"2018-07-30T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cross.education\/crosstalk\/2018\/07\/30\/oume-nights\/"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:43:11","slug":"oume-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/2018\/07\/30\/oume-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Oume Nights!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Ron Carter and his Jazz Trio<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C5%8Cme,_Tokyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oume City<\/a> is a community in the furthest western reach of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. It&#8217;s located west of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hachi%C5%8Dji,_Tokyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hachioji<\/a>, and just to the north of Tokyo&#8217;s highest mountain (yes, this does exist) called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keio.co.jp\/english\/sightseeing\/takao.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mount Takao<\/a>. Hiking the 700 odd meters of this mountain is, incidentally, one of the the most recommended things to do should you decide to visit Tokyo. It&#8217;s also one of the possible adventures for the participants of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cross.education\/summer-camp-academy\/\">Cross&#8217; 2019 Summer Academy<\/a>. The masses of people on any given holiday of the year clearly attest to this.<\/p>\n<p>And so, tonight, in Oume, <em>Movie Signboard City<\/em>, a town decorated in western and Japanese retro motifs, and adorned with stylized oversized billboard posters of Hollywood classics like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Fistful_of_Dollars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Fist full of Dollars<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizen_Kane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizen Kane<\/a>,<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gone With the Wind<\/em><\/a>, and Japanese oldies like\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E4%B8%B9%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%A6%E8%86%B3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u4e39\u4e0b\u4f50\u81b3<\/a>\u3001<a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4%E6%8E%A2%E5%81%B5%E5%9B%A3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u5c11\u5e74\u63a2\u5075\u56e3<\/a>\u3001and <a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E6%82%B2%E3%81%97%E3%81%8D%E5%8F%A3%E7%AC%9B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u60b2\u3057\u304d\u53e3\u7b1b<\/a><\/em>, Cross&#8217; representative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cross.education\/criss-cross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Criss<\/a>, was fortunate enough to attend a special event: a chill evening in an Oume lounge to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_Carter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron Carter<\/a> and his Jazz Trio. This was clearly a very special event for this quiet, eclectic, and far flung corner of Tokyo; it was a very, very good night.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-304\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cross.education\/crosstalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0328-300x283.jpg?resize=300%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0328.jpg?resize=300%2C283&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0328.jpg?resize=768%2C724&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0328.jpg?resize=1024%2C965&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_0328.jpg?w=1125&amp;ssl=1 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Carter and his Jazz Trio Oume City is a community in the furthest western reach of the Tokyo Metropolitan  &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/2018\/07\/30\/oume-nights\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Oume Nights!&#8221; \u306e<\/span>\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackdoglogic.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}