{"id":1462,"date":"2007-10-25T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T00:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2007-10-28T01:03:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T08:03:13","slug":"so-i-spent-a-considerable-amount-of-time-and-money-to-get-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"So I spent a considerable amount of time and money to get to Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And what am I doing? Hiding in my hotel room. Things have changed in 15 years (my hotel room, for example, has a desk in it and isn&#8217;t just the size of my bed) but I remember things don&#8217;t open until 10 or later. In any case, I&#8217;m not brave enough to get on the train during rush hour with all my luggage. I have my laptop bag, a carry-on-sized-bag for my clothes, and a carry-on-sized-bag for all the presents I brought. As any good Buddhahead knows (and my Korean friends as well) you have to bring a lot of gifts for all your friends and family. Maybe that&#8217;s why I shouldn&#8217;t have that many friends. I suppose, I don&#8217;t, really.<\/p>\n<p>The bathroom of my hotel room is still the weird one-piece-molded-plastic thing, but the toilet has the bidet feature. I&#8217;m afraid of most of the water in Japan, so I&#8217;m not trying it.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/shower1.jpg' title='The shower at Shin-Osaka Station Hotel.'><img src='https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/shower1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='The shower at Shin-Osaka Station Hotel.' \/><\/a><a href='https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/toilet1.jpg' title='Molded fancy toilet at Shin-Osaka Station Hotel.'><img src='https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/toilet1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Molded fancy toilet at Shin-Osaka Station Hotel.' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And what am I doing? Hiding in my hotel room. Things have changed in 15 years (my hotel room, for example, has a desk in it and isn&#8217;t just the size of my bed) but I remember things don&#8217;t open until 10 or later. In any case, I&#8217;m not brave enough to get on the train during rush hour with all my luggage. I have my laptop bag, a carry-on-sized-bag for my clothes, and a carry-on-sized-bag for all the presents I brought. As any good Buddhahead knows (and my Korean friends as well) you have to bring a lot of gifts for all your friends and family. Maybe that&#8217;s why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So I spent a considerable amount of time and money to get to Japan.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}