{"id":208,"date":"2003-12-28T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-28T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2003-12-28T03:46:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-28T03:46:00","slug":"up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Up To Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a great trip!  I\u2019ve posted <a href=\"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/archive\/2003_12_01_archive.html#107257345733663284\">all the updates below<\/a>, so enjoy! <\/p>\n<p>What a contrast to Japan.  I could understand everyone I talked to &#8211; I was able to do more things because I could read signs, bus routes, and schedules.  I was the one who helped my Japanese students and teachers get through English conversations, instead of me relying on them.  <\/p>\n<p>There was great food &#8211; I ate so many hamburgers, steaks, and prawns!  The seafood was excellent, with a little more of a western style to the cooking.  The wine was excellent &#8211; my cousin Steve took good care of me and let me try some great Australian wines.  I was able to try lots of different Australian beers &#8211; I never saw Foster\u2019s anywhere. <\/p>\n<p>Australia reminded me a bit of England, without the clouds and more relaxed.  I bumped into a surprising amount of English expatriates.  After living in Japan for four months or so, it felt like I was back in the United States for a little while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great trip! I\u2019ve posted all the updates below, so enjoy! What a contrast to Japan. I could understand everyone I talked to &#8211; I was able to do more things because I could read signs, bus routes, and schedules. I was the one who helped my Japanese students and teachers get through English [&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-208","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\/pOpl7-3m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}