{"id":17,"date":"2007-10-18T16:47:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:17:00","slug":"off-to-kyoto-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Off to Kyoto for the Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"postbody\">I&#8217;m still in Okazaki, but I&#8217;m leaving for <strong>Kyoto<\/strong> in just a few minutes for the weekend. I need to rest for another 5-10 minutes, then I&#8217;m heading out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\">That&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve discovered I have to do&#8211; <strong>make time to rest<\/strong>. If I don&#8217;t, I suffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Classes are hard. For some reason, the Japanese is fighting my brain, and my brain is losing.<\/p>\n<p>My teachers are great. I&#8217;m just slow for some reason. I&#8217;ll get some weird hard stuff right, and then totally blank on the easy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it means I&#8217;ll have to study more when I get home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve sort of flip-flopped on whether I&#8217;d like to live here or not. Sometimes I totally want to, other times, I&#8217;m totally hating it. My travel-related discomfort probably plays a large role.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t make a decision until I hit Tokyo in November. No point in doing that now without more experience under my belt.<\/p>\n<p>Beppu is sounding more and more like a good idea. I might head down there for a night or two and just let the hot water take me away.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, time to go catch the bus to JR Okazaki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still in Okazaki, but I&#8217;m leaving for Kyoto in just a few minutes for the weekend. I need to rest for another 5-10 minutes, then I&#8217;m heading out. That&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve discovered I have to do&#8211; make time to rest. If I don&#8217;t, I suffer. Classes are hard. For some reason, the Japanese <a href='https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=17' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[894,827,12,167,100,895],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-travel","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2007","tag-japanese","tag-kyoto","tag-okazaki","tag-travel","category-3-id","category-5-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\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}