{"id":745,"date":"2008-04-11T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2008-04-11T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:48:01","slug":"and_now_for_something_kinda_di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/and_now_for_something_kinda_di\/","title":{"rendered":"And now for something kinda different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I figure this would happen eventually.  Parts of my life colliding in print.  I luurve ramen, I have a Boblbee backpack (but not these fancy ones) and Star Wars.  Behold!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/boblbeestormtrooper.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/boblbeestormtrooper.html','popup','width=640,height=827,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/boblbeestormtrooper-thumb.jpg?resize=480%2C620\" width=\"480\" height=\"620\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Stormtrooper eating ramen<\/em><br \/>\nCuz even Stormtroopers, the defenders of the Galactic Empire, need ramen!  Of course, this has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/adp\/eng\/280\/Stormtrooper+and+Ramen.html\">done before<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannychoo.com\/basedir\/mac\/eng\/article\/category\/stormtrooper\/danny\/0000\/00\/0.html\">Tokyo&#8217;s Stormtrooper in Residence<\/a>.  One megacity, one stormtrooper.<br \/>\nThe ad is for a limited series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boblbee.co.jp\/\">Star Wars 30th Anniversary commemorative Boblbee backpacks<\/a>.  Only available in Japan, natch! I picked this ad up when I was in Tokyo last November and stumbled upon Waseda University&#8217;s 125th Anniversary party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I figure this would happen eventually. Parts of my life colliding in print. I luurve ramen, I have a Boblbee backpack (but not these fancy ones) and Star Wars. Behold! Stormtrooper eating ramen Cuz even Stormtroopers, the defenders of the Galactic Empire, need ramen! Of course, this has been done before by Tokyo&#8217;s Stormtrooper &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/and_now_for_something_kinda_di\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And now for something kinda different&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-japan-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-c1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}