{"id":4405,"date":"2011-01-17T23:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T07:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2011-01-17T23:42:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T07:42:48","slug":"my-next-big-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4405","title":{"rendered":"My next big vacation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take a two week trip to Japan every year (or at least I&#8217;ve done it a lot lately) and pretty soon I think I&#8217;ll have eight weeks of vacation I can take at once. My current plan, which I came up with while drinking, is to get an apartment in Tokyo and waste a bunch of time there. I&#8217;ve never lived in Tokyo, and this could be a grand adventure. The other plan is to get the apartment in Osaka, because I&#8217;ve lived near there in the past and I like it better but, really, which has more adventure potential?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can live somewhere in the sticks instead. Some of the smaller cities have even better fun to be had and I kind of think that the air in Tokyo is pretty bad. And what could be lonelier than being by myself in a crowded city? I&#8217;m sure I could look up some old friends there and maybe just sit around watching TV for a while. I should, probably, find something to do or I&#8217;m going to end up spending a lot of money like I usually do when I&#8217;m bored.<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh. Planning. I&#8217;d much rather wing it. Well, I have almost two years to think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take a two week trip to Japan every year (or at least I&#8217;ve done it a lot lately) and pretty soon I think I&#8217;ll have eight weeks of vacation I can take at once. My current plan, which I came up with while drinking, is to get an apartment in Tokyo and waste a bunch of time there. I&#8217;ve never lived in Tokyo, and this could be a grand adventure. The other plan is to get the apartment in Osaka, because I&#8217;ve lived near there in the past and I like it better but, really, which has more adventure potential? Maybe I can live somewhere in the sticks instead. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My next big vacation.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4405","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\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4406,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}