{"id":301,"date":"2004-03-25T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2004-03-25T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T07:11:00","slug":"introducing-kuniko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Kuniko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I would be writing this entry sooner or later, and it seems like now is the time.  If you hadn&#8217;t already noticed, Miss Kageyama and I have been spending lots of time together lately, and ever since I <a href=\"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/log\/archive\/2003_08_01_archive.html#105983400640517369\">met her for the first time<\/a> on August 1st I&#8217;ve enjoyed her company. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been dating since December, and Japanese protocol meant that we had to keep our dating a secret.  At times it has been tough, other times exciting, but very soon many of our friends, coworkers, and family will know the big secret.  Since we&#8217;re no longer working together, it isn&#8217;t going to be a problem to be dating, so we can tell other people.  The one that we&#8217;re both worried about is Mr. Hayashi &#8211; he&#8217;s discouraged us from seeing each other in subtle ways in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow after school I&#8217;m going to Osaka to see her place for the first time, and we&#8217;ll be using her apartment as a homebase until Sunday night.  We&#8217;ll be making a trip into Kyoto for a concert with Yasu and Antoine.  On Sunday or Monday the plan is to either take the Bullet Train or a highway bus to Tokyo, and spend two days and two nights exploring more of that enormous city. I won&#8217;t be back home until Thursday of next week, so I&#8217;ll post lots of updates when I get return.  Right now I&#8217;m getting ready to meet Carrie in Himeji for dinner, and then it&#8217;s packing again when I get back.<\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;re up to date with Miss Kageyama.   Until today I&#8217;ve always used her family name in my journal, but from now on I&#8217;ll use her given name &#8211; in Japan a sign of initimacy and familiarity.  I&#8217;m looking forward to a great weekend with Kuniko, and I&#8217;ll tell you how it works out when I get back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I would be writing this entry sooner or later, and it seems like now is the time. If you hadn&#8217;t already noticed, Miss Kageyama and I have been spending lots of time together lately, and ever since I met her for the first time on August 1st I&#8217;ve enjoyed her company. We&#8217;ve been [&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-301","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\/pOpl7-4R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}