{"id":301,"date":"2011-08-31T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-08-31T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:17:08","slug":"its-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S ON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tickets are booked. The dates are set. This winter I&#8217;m spending three months in <strong>Japan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303\" title=\"GuidebooksPassport\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GuidebooksPassport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GuidebooksPassport.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GuidebooksPassport-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is something I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for a <strong>very<\/strong> long time &#8211; ever since I was little, in fact, when my godfather came back from a long spell there and I asked him what it was like. &#8216;It&#8217;s the closest you can get to <strong>visiting another planet<\/strong>,&#8217; he replied, &#8216;without leaving this one.&#8217; I&#8217;ve been fascinated by Japan and Japanese culture ever since. I mean, how could I not be? ;D<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to <strong>James N<\/strong>. for the guidebooks above, and for telling Laura and I to <strong>stop talking about it and make it happen<\/strong>. To anyone reading this with dreams and ambitions of your own, whatever they are, <strong>take the same advice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hee hee hee!<\/p>\n<p>Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tickets are booked. The dates are set. This winter I&#8217;m spending three months in Japan. This is something I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for a very long time &#8211; ever since I was little, in fact, when my godfather came back from a long spell there and I asked him what it was like. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}