{"id":2291,"date":"2017-11-28T18:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/blog\/japanesebookreview\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2017-11-28T18:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:45:56","slug":"%e3%81%95%e3%81%8f%e3%82%89-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/2017\/11\/28\/%e3%81%95%e3%81%8f%e3%82%89-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3055\u304f\u3089"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed this story! The main focus of the book was, of course, Sakura, or cherry blossoms,\u00a0 and their appearance in different parts of Japan. I was surprised to find myself so interested in a book about flowers!<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this book to Japanese 1 students as it is almost completely understandable. This is due party to the books great use of pictures, which provide context when needed. The book uses a lot of the sentence structures that we see in class and is an excellent source of practice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/blog\/japanesebookreview\/files\/2015\/08\/level0_vol1_sakura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/blog\/japanesebookreview\/files\/2015\/08\/level0_vol1_sakura-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">level 0, vol 1, sakura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed this story! The main focus of the book was, of course, Sakura, or cherry blossoms,\u00a0 and their appearance in different parts of Japan. I was surprised to find myself so interested in a book about flowers! I highly recommend this book to Japanese 1 students as it is almost completely understandable. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/2017\/11\/28\/%e3%81%95%e3%81%8f%e3%82%89-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u3055\u304f\u3089&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23,29,32,69],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-graded-readers","tag-iam","tag-1st-year-japanese","tag-4-stars","tag-level-1","book-214"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/japanese-book-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}