{"id":4227,"date":"2010-11-03T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2010-11-03T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T13:32:00","slug":"day-7-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4227","title":{"rendered":"Day 7 in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a random adventure in Kobe, started mainly because my sister wanted to go shopping at some random and small fabric store. After that we went wandering around Sannomiya, where I had odd flashbacks of a place I hadn’t been for 20 years. When I was in Japan I had a recurring dream about going to Powell’s Books in Portland and never quite making it. After moving back to the U.S., I’ve had a recurring dream of going to Sannomiya but never making it. So it was all a bit surreal.<\/p>\n

This is what a $6.20 cup of coffee looks like:<\/p>\n

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I even bought a new man-purse at a bag shop I went to probably 25 years ago. I can’t remember what bag I bought back then.<\/p>\n

We got back and I had enough time to see my aunt before I left for dinner with an old friend from my old Mitsubishi Electric days. We now see each other once every year. It’s weird how much things have changed for him lately: a long 3-year divorce proceeding and then he’s engaged to be married again already, building a new house for his combined family (2 of her kids and one of his). I wonder if I should have taken pictures of the okonomiyaki we had tonight, but I think the pictures from Day 1 are enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a random adventure in Kobe, started mainly because my sister wanted to go shopping at some random and small fabric store. After that we went wandering around Sannomiya, where I had odd flashbacks of a place I hadn’t been for 20 years. When I was in Japan I had a recurring dream about going to Powell’s Books in Portland and never quite making it. After moving back to the U.S., I’ve had a recurring dream of going to Sannomiya but never making it. So it was all a bit surreal. This is what a $6.20 cup of coffee looks like: I even bought a new man-purse at a … Continue reading Day 7 in Japan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","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\/4227","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=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}