{"id":7033,"date":"2016-12-11T22:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T03:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2019-07-17T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:56:54","slug":"japan-b-side-extra-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/12\/11\/japan-b-side-extra-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: B Side Extra Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preface this for me: I’m not a singer. I’ve never sung or played in a band nor enjoyed doing anything in public. I have nerves. And they freak out when people are focused on me. Even if it’s just helping someone fix their computer issue, if you’re lording over my shoulder –  I can’t think straight.<\/p>\n

So I came to Japan, used offerings of Coca-Cola as my bridge to striking up a conversation with others – was asked to join a band and<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NzQUaF4nZTk&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

Yup – things change<\/p>\n

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Preface this for me: I’m not a singer. I’ve never sung or played in a band nor enjoyed doing anything in public. I have nerves. And they freak out when people are focused on me. Even if it’s just helping someone fix their computer issue, if you’re lording over my shoulder –  I can’t think…<\/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-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","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=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15645,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions\/15645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}