{"id":11364,"date":"2025-10-17T17:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:16:46","slug":"no-japan-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11364","title":{"rendered":"NO JAPAN 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister planned a trip with the two of us, my brother-in-law, my brother-in-law\u2019s college buddy, and the buddy\u2019s son. We were going to ride the ferry from Osaka to Kagoshima too! But I panicked when I saw all my bills and instead of contacting my financial planner I just canceled everything. This is my first year of having no (paying) job at all and I panicked. Medical bills sure add up once you\u2019re no longer working for a high tech company with good benefits.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone waiting for my fall pictures (both of you) I apologize. I just sent an email to my financial planner and I might try to go twice next year, once in springtime and once in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>But who knows? I was awoken by military helicopters over my house (they rattled my windows) because Portland, so who knows what\u2019s in the future? Closed borders? Well, I\u2019ll worry about that when it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister planned a trip with the two of us, my brother-in-law, my brother-in-law\u2019s college buddy, and the buddy\u2019s son. We were going to ride the ferry from Osaka to Kagoshima too! But I panicked when I saw all my bills and instead of contacting my financial planner I just canceled everything. This is my first year of having no (paying) job at all and I panicked. Medical bills sure add up once you\u2019re no longer working for a high tech company with good benefits. For anyone waiting for my fall pictures (both of you) I apologize. I just sent an email to my financial planner and I might try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NO JAPAN 2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}