{"id":84,"date":"2004-01-08T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2004-01-08T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T17:00:14","slug":"japan_is_lovely_for_many_reaso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/japan_is_lovely_for_many_reaso\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan is lovely for many reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tell everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Besides the abundance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artelino.com\/glossary\/bijin.asp?gly=30&#038;cp=1\">bijin<\/a> (literal translation, not common usage), there are many many forms of booze at many different price points.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what I liked to drink over there, I say &#8220;beeru&#8221; and &#8220;shochu&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s shochu? I really couldn&#8217;t explain it very well.  Saying Japanese vodka doesn&#8217;t give it justice.  <a href=\"http:\/\/128.242.94.184\/html\/shochu-awamori.html\">This does though<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigempire.com\/sake\/happoshu.html\">cheap beer that&#8217;s not really beer <\/a>too.  Good for a quickie.<\/p>\n<p>Still not going anywhere so far this month.  Blah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tell everyone&#8230; Besides the abundance of bijin (literal translation, not common usage), there are many many forms of booze at many different price points. When asked what I liked to drink over there, I say &#8220;beeru&#8221; and &#8220;shochu&#8221;. What&#8217;s shochu? I really couldn&#8217;t explain it very well. Saying Japanese vodka doesn&#8217;t give it justice. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/japan_is_lovely_for_many_reaso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Japan is lovely for many reasons&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-1m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}