{"id":438,"date":"2012-01-01T04:09:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T04:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-01-01T04:09:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T04:09:25","slug":"a-new-year-message-for-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"A New Year Message For Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here (below) are some <strong>carrots<\/strong>. The Japanese word for them is <strong>&#8216;NINJIN&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-439\" title=\"Ninjin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ninjin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ninjin.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ninjin-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here (below) is <strong>one of the best live acts I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life<\/strong> &#8211; the awesomely raucous <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/kensouthrock\">Ken South Rock<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; playing, last night, a song the title of which is the Japanese word for <strong>people<\/strong>: <strong>&#8216;NINGEN&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"Ningen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ningen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ningen.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Ningen-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here (below) is <strong>the best paragraph I read in 2011<\/strong>. It comes from <strong>Hokkaido Highway Blues<\/strong>, by <strong>Will Ferguson<\/strong>, a wonderful book about travelling in Japan. Describing what a challenge similar-sounding words in Japanese can be, the author provides an <strong>important message<\/strong> to keep in mind as we plunge on into 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAnother combination that gives me trouble is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153human\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (ningen) and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153carrot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (ninjin) which once caused a lot of puzzled looks during a speech I gave in Tokyo on the merits of internationalization, when I passionately declared that <strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I am a carrot. You are a carrot. We are all carrots. As long as we always remember our common carrotness, we will be fine<\/span>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy New Year \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here (below) are some carrots. The Japanese word for them is &#8216;NINJIN&#8217;. Here (below) is one of the best live acts I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life &#8211; the awesomely raucous Ken South Rock &#8211; playing, last night, a song the title of which is the Japanese word for people: &#8216;NINGEN&#8217;. Here (below) is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}