{"id":5416,"date":"2016-09-04T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:08:11","slug":"japan-a-side-5-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/09\/04\/japan-a-side-5-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: A Side 5 &#8211; 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huh? Five? Where did my four go? And did I even really get to nine?<br \/>\nEverything here is backwards and I am already skipping a beat &#8212; I&#8217;ll chock it off as being usual for someone&#8217;s first week starting a new life in an unfamiliar society.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I talked to myself about philosophy&nbsp;alone in my room in wide open Florida when no one else was home.&nbsp; But Japan is a communal society, and I am quickly being force fed the joys of relying on each other for the good of life.<\/p>\n<p>This week I ask my friends from Rollins their initial thoughts on Japan and the Japanese &#8212; first impressions &#8212; it opens on a weird note and so it ends on a weird note.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, as the other 352 international students here at Kansai Gaidai begin to settle in, I will round up more and more strange interviews &#8212; and convince a few Japanese students to share their opinions on us as well.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5416-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/files\/2016\/09\/Japan-A-Side5-9.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/files\/2016\/09\/Japan-A-Side5-9.mp3\">http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/files\/2016\/09\/Japan-A-Side5-9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huh? Five? Where did my four go? And did I even really get to nine? Everything here is backwards and I am already skipping a beat &#8212; I&#8217;ll chock it off as being usual for someone&#8217;s first week starting a new life in an unfamiliar society. Last time I talked to myself about philosophy&nbsp;alone in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/19582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}