{"id":8177,"date":"2015-10-27T05:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8177"},"modified":"2015-10-29T01:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:31:34","slug":"japan-2015-day-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8177","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2015 Day 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s about 5:35AM in Portland right now, which isn\u2019t too terribly early but I\u2019ve been up since 7AM yesterday. It\u2019s only about 9:35PM in Shinagawa and I\u2019m about to fall over. I\u2019m here alone this year and I had a bunch of \u201cerrands\u201d to run when I got to Tokyo. Some I always go – pick up my rail pass, get SIM card for my phone, etc. But I also had to pick up a SIM card that I had delivered to a convenience store (something you can do in Japan), get all my train tickets since I was traveling a lot on the front end of the trip, and mail some gift packages so I didn\u2019t have to lug them around the whole trip.<\/p>\n

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The trip started out weird too. A Nike guy I know was on my flight and so was my old high school classmate Jim Skinner. And I gave up my aisle seat so a girl could sit with her mom – they were on their way back to Guam and of course they knew Ric Blas the judoka!<\/p>\n

So I better call this quits before I stay up way too late. I have to get up early and get the heck out of Dodge (to see my cousin and her new granddaughter!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s about 5:35AM in Portland right now, which isn\u2019t too terribly early but I\u2019ve been up since 7AM yesterday. It\u2019s only about 9:35PM in Shinagawa and I\u2019m about to fall over. I\u2019m here alone this year and I had a bunch of \u201cerrands\u201d to run when I got to Tokyo. Some I always go – pick up my rail pass, get SIM card for my phone, etc. But I also had to pick up a SIM card that I had delivered to a convenience store (something you can do in Japan), get all my train tickets since I was traveling a lot on the front end of the trip, and … Continue reading Japan 2015 Day 0<\/span> →<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8177","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\/8177","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=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}