{"id":130,"date":"2003-10-26T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2003-10-26T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-26T01:05:00","slug":"good-morning-and-welcome-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning and Welcome to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was awakened at 5:46 this morning by the sound of children chanting.  I kind of rolled out of bed and looked outside, and there was a whole line of kids marching southeast, towards the center of town.  They were singing some kind of song, and they all looked tired and bored.  <\/p>\n<p>About an hour and half later, the community announcement system clicked on with a &#8220;Good Morning West Futami!&#8221; message, giving details about the matsuri festival today.  People are pretty excited about it, I guess.   The community message came on again ten minutes later, and then ten minutes after that.  Weird. <\/p>\n<p>Sara called this morning, and we chatted for a while.  She&#8217;s hoping to visit in February, so hopefully that will work out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing some housecleaning today, and then later on in the afternoon I&#8217;m off to the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was awakened at 5:46 this morning by the sound of children chanting. I kind of rolled out of bed and looked outside, and there was a whole line of kids marching southeast, towards the center of town. They were singing some kind of song, and they all looked tired and bored. About an hour [&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-130","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\/pOpl7-26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}