{"id":59,"date":"2010-07-27T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:35:25","slug":"yunomae-town-kumamoto-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/2010\/07\/27\/yunomae-town-kumamoto-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Yunomae Town, Kumamoto, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/2012\/03\/02\/unfinished-drafts-muttering-in-the-corner\/\">Last one&#8230;<\/a>&#8230;.I&#8217;m never going to finish these&#8230; and that was five years ago!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I was 22 I lived in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=100485107591384422802.00048c5eda05fdd2f5f3f&amp;ll=32.278008,130.986471&amp;spn=0.011955,0.01929&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\">Yunomae, Japan<\/a> for two years. It was a both a wonderful time and a very difficult time. I find it hard to think about because I have real regrets about the experience. If ever there was a case of being older and wiser, and thinking that youth is wasted on the young, this pretty much fits the bill.<\/p>\n<p>I lived in a beautiful location, had free time, and was hosted by incredibly generous and wonderful people. At the same time, the work was unfulfilling, and the culture shock eventually became a very real thing.<\/p>\n<p>When I think about it, I&#8217;m very sad to have lost touch with the lovely people I met and who were so kind to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last one&#8230;&#8230;.I&#8217;m never going to finish these&#8230; and that was five years ago! &nbsp; When I was 22 I lived in Yunomae, Japan for two years. It was a both a wonderful time and a very difficult time. I find it hard to think about because I have real regrets about the experience. If ever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/2010\/07\/27\/yunomae-town-kumamoto-japan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yunomae Town, Kumamoto, Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nWeR-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.carter-tod.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}