{"id":297,"date":"2011-07-15T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T05:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tm2011.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2016-01-10T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T07:52:21","slug":"google-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/2011\/07\/google-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Running: Tokyo&#8217;s 21km (13 mile) Google+ Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/josephtame\/activity\/43356991\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-298\" title=\"google-plus\" src=\"http:\/\/josephta.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/google-plus-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a>This morning I had the idea to celebrate the popularity of Google+ amongst my Japanese and non-Japanese friends here in Tokyo by running the Google+ logo. It was only supposed to be about 13km, but in the end came in at over 21KM &#8211; and that&#8217;s without the connecting sections that I didn&#8217;t track. In total it was probably about 24KM. Planning the route with Google Maps beforehand took about 90 minutes &#8211; it was tricky to get everything in proportion given the road layout.<\/p>\n<p>As usual I used runkeeper to track the run &#8211; and Google Earth on a second iPhone to see which way to go next. Unfortunately I accidentally picked up an iPhone 3G instead of a 3GS &#8211; it was sooooo slow, and in fact in the end the GPS packed up altogether (possibly due to the fact that it was connected to a mobile router that has a habit of getting its coordinates in a twist).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/josephtame\/activity\/43356991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299\" title=\"Runkeeper Stats\" src=\"http:\/\/josephta.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-15-at-16.55.16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"718\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The temperature steadily rose, hitting about 32 degrees as I made my way over to make the plus. I spent much of my time at that point running with an ice cream in hand!<\/p>\n<p>See all the stats and detailed map <a href=\"http:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/josephtame\/activity\/43356991\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had the idea to celebrate the popularity of Google+ amongst my Japanese and non-Japanese friends here in Tokyo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,15,22,28,32,42,50],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-art-of-running","tag-art-of-running","tag-brand","tag-google","tag-japan","tag-logo","tag-running","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}