{"id":1210,"date":"2012-05-01T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2014-01-21T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:32:15","slug":"working-on-my-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Working on My Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with my first Japanese teacher from when I was a grad student about ten years ago. A-sensei is a great person who will always help a former student out, and I really appreciate it. We had a nice chat and she&#8217;s going to connect me with some local folks to talk to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also waiting to hear back from some other folks in Japan about getting a tutor for the business Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>Language is a muscle. If you don&#8217;t use it, it atrophies. Fast. So the more people I can talk to in Japanese, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with my first Japanese teacher from when I was a grad student about ten years ago. A-sensei is a great person who will always help a former student out, and I really appreciate it. We had a nice chat and she&#8217;s going to connect me with some local folks to talk to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[655,4],"tags":[894,12],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-japanese-language-study","tag-japan-trip","tag-japanese","category-655-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\/1210","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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}