{"id":162,"date":"2012-11-06T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/11\/06\/open-call-for-questions-about-japan-for-new-blogging-series\/"},"modified":"2012-11-06T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:54:00","slug":"open-call-for-questions-about-japan-for-new-blogging-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/11\/06\/open-call-for-questions-about-japan-for-new-blogging-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Call For Questions About Japan, For New Blogging Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kRLY9hZcKZc\/UJjAvCzKPRI\/AAAAAAAABNk\/OvGVN-UYa74\/s1600\/gifu2.png\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kRLY9hZcKZc\/UJjAvCzKPRI\/AAAAAAAABNk\/OvGVN-UYa74\/s1600\/gifu2.png\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: Me. (A view from Gujo City, Gifu)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to start a little weekly (or maybe bi-weekly) blogging series about life in Japan, both from an academic point and from a living-there-as-a-foreigner point. I mean, why not? It&#8217;s my major area of study since puberty, damnit.<\/p>\n<p>So to get a jump on some ideas of what to post, I&#8217;m opening this first post for questions you might like to see answered about Japanese language and culture from a general view, or a more specific and gritty look at getting a job there (and keeping it) and getting around as a foreigner. Please keep in mind though that I can only answer generic questions about the language &#8211; most of its intricacies are still beyond me!<\/p>\n<p>You can look forward to the first blog post sometime this week. I was thinking about either queer life in Japan or Japanese naming conventions. What say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Me. (A view from Gujo City, Gifu) I&#8217;ve decided to start a little weekly (or maybe bi-weekly) blogging series about life in Japan, both from an academic point and from a living-there-as-a-foreigner point. I mean, why not? It&#8217;s my major area of study since puberty, damnit. So to get a jump on some ideas&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[181,27,182,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodies-for-you","category-japan","category-open-call","category-question"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRtqI-2C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}