{"id":1187,"date":"2007-01-15T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2007-01-15T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T12:56:00","slug":"whale-rider-big-citrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Whale Rider, Big Citrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like I caught a little bit of a cold, probably from Kuniko who caught one a couple of days ago.  I&#8217;m feeling OK still, but I could tell my condition was getting worse as the day went on.<\/p>\n<p>Back at school I had three classes &#8211; two first year classes and one third year class.  The third year students were pretty worn out from the weekend, and weren&#8217;t really up for speaking much English.  My first year students were full of energy, and it was fun to teach and goof around with them. <\/p>\n<p>Lots of people commented on my haircut &#8211; I got it trimmed up on Saturday.  The barber got a little carried away, and it seemed pretty drastic to everyone.  Overall the reviews were positive, though. <\/p>\n<p>Kuniko and I finished off the lasagna tonight, and we also cracked the giant citrus and ate a small portion of it.  Full of vitamin C.  It was like a sweet grapefruit &#8211; it tasted really good.  For some reason it reminded me of a pomegranate&#8230; the mouthfeel reminded me of pomegranate seeds.<\/p>\n<p>and afterwards we went on a wild goose chase trying to rent &#8220;Whale Rider&#8221; to show her students.  They are getting ready to go to New Zealand in a few months, and that&#8217;s a good movie to give them a little insight into Maori culture.  Unfortunately nobody had it, and Kuniko had to go looking for it all the way over in Futami.  <\/p>\n<p>The crazy thing is that we have the DVD here at home.  It is an American DVD, so it won&#8217;t play in Japanese players.  I&#8217;ve chalked it all up to a conspiracy on the part of the Motion Picture Association of America.  The prices of DVDs here are so high, and people are stuck paying the prices because they can&#8217;t play other region DVDs.  I offered to loan Kuniko the region-free DVD player to use at her school, but it&#8217;s a little bulky to lug all the way there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to write more but I&#8217;m tired out.  I need to remember to write a little bit about Zelda on the Wii sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like I caught a little bit of a cold, probably from Kuniko who caught one a couple of days ago. I&#8217;m feeling OK still, but I could tell my condition was getting worse as the day went on. Back at school I had three classes &#8211; two first year classes and one third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-j9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}