{"id":422,"date":"2005-02-23T23:42:34","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T07:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2005-02-23T23:42:34","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T07:42:34","slug":"another-addictive-dragonball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Another addictive Dragonball."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or as I&#8217;ve heard it called, Drag-on ball. I used to watch it in Japan on Wednesday nights at exactly 6PM. Japanese TV was pretty darn precise back then. I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like now, fourteen years later. Anyway, it&#8217;s a serial cartoon that came from a comic book. I used to read comic books all the time and I think it might have helped me with my Japanese reading. Or maybe I just looked at the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been tracking two of my packages on UPS&#8217;s web site. One was shipped 2-day air and it&#8217;s in Portland already. The other is making it through a bunch of towns I&#8217;ve barely heard of: Mesa, AZ, Phoenix, Riviera, AZ, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, Hermiston. OK, I was in a wedding in Hermiston but I&#8217;m not sure why my soldering iron is stuck there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or as I&#8217;ve heard it called, Drag-on ball. I used to watch it in Japan on Wednesday nights at exactly 6PM. Japanese TV was pretty darn precise back then. I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like now, fourteen years later. Anyway, it&#8217;s a serial cartoon that came from a comic book. I used to read comic books all the time and I think it might have helped me with my Japanese reading. Or maybe I just looked at the pictures. I&#8217;ve been tracking two of my packages on UPS&#8217;s web site. One was shipped 2-day air and it&#8217;s in Portland already. The other is making it through a bunch of towns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another addictive Dragonball.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","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\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}