{"id":1161,"date":"2011-12-07T22:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:42:34","slug":"the-aptitude-test-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"The Aptitude Test Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had the \u00e5\u00ae\u0178\u00e5\u0160\u203a\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac\u00e3\u0081\u02dc\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u0160\u00e3\u201a\u2021\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u20ac\u20ac<em>jitsuryoku <\/em>or aptitude test. It was the same test I took when I first got here. It&#8217;s a good chance to see how far I&#8217;ve really come since I got here. As always, though, it&#8217;s long, and makes my brain hurt.<\/p>\n<p>In JBPP, we took more phone messages.<\/p>\n<p>After that, I met up with S-buchou to talk about calligraphy over tea. It was a lot of fun. He showed me some of his work, and gave me a piece he did of a peacock. I really appreciated that. It&#8217;s a lovely piece.<\/p>\n<p>He also gave me the address of the brush shop in Toyohashi I need to go to, and told me to tell the owner that he sent me. Cool.<\/p>\n<p>He also gave me some great advice about calligraphy in general. He thinks I shouldn&#8217;t worry so much over getting the forms right, since he thinks I have those down pretty much, and I should try to be more bold and adventurous in my calligraphy.<\/p>\n<p>I can do that! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After taking the aptitude test again, we took more phone messages in JBPP. Then I had tea with S-buchou, who had some great advice for me about my calligraphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[894,828,12,100,611,532,566,895],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-japanese-language-study","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-japanese","tag-okazaki","tag-shodo","tag-testing","tag-tests","tag-travel","category-3-id","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}