{"id":299,"date":"2004-03-02T00:33:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T00:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasabi.yukidoke.org\/mika\/nikki\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-02-04T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:15:10","slug":"kotoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/kotoba\/","title":{"rendered":"kotoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine came to visit me from Japan. Especially because she&#8217;s a really sweet, sheltered, pure person, many many things turned out to be cultural-shock experiences for her. One day, I was explaining to her how common marijuana is in this country in comparison to Japan. We were discussing this issue for about half an hour while we were waiting for a street bus. Then, out of nowhere, she said &#8220;Oh yeah, it was so much fun doing speed last night&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My heart froze.<\/p>\n<p>My head started spinning and my voice quivering; &#8220;..what did you just say?&#8221; Then with this sweetest smile, she says &#8220;with Thumbs (one of my friends)&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Ohh, I was so ready to send a couple gozillas to Thumbs&#8217;s home. SO ready.<\/p>\n<p>How could he ruin my friend&#8217;s perfect life, how could he do this behind my back, how could he.. wait a minute. My voice again quivered with, this time, a hope in mind, &#8220;You mean..when you played cards with him..?&#8221; Again, with a lovely, friendly, naive smile, she nodded and said &#8220;Yep! that was soo much fun..&#8221;<!--15c8433bf532a1ed2266f391da201ebe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine came to visit me from Japan. Especially because she&#8217;s a really sweet, sheltered, pure person, many many things turned out to be cultural-shock experiences for her. One day, I was explaining to her how common marijuana is in this country in comparison to Japan. We were discussing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mika.im\/nikki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}