{"id":1205,"date":"2003-10-31T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2003-10-31T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/10\/31\/\/"},"modified":"2003-10-31T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2003-10-31T17:26:11","slug":"1205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/1205\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/japanese-rabbit.jpg\" alt=\"rabbit\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www-unix.oit.umass.edu\/~thoureau\/japanese.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>So You Want To Learn Japanese.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve eaten at a few Japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a Japanese girlfriend. And now, somewhere in the back of your tiny brain, you think that Japanese would be a good language to learn. Hey, you could translate video games! Or Manga! Or even Anime! Pick up Japanese girls, impress your friends! Maybe you&#8217;ll even go to Japan and become an anime artist! Yeah! Sounds like a great idea!<\/p>\n<p>So you head down to the library, pick up some books with titles like &#8220;How To Teach Yourself Japanes In Just 5 Seconds A Day While Driving Your Car To And From The Post Office&#8221; and &#8220;Japanese For Complete And Total, Utter Fools Who Should Never Procreate&#8221;. Hey, you already know a few words from your manga collection\/girlfriend\/anime. Excited and impressed with your new knowledge, you begin to think: &#8220;Hey. Maybe, just maybe, i could do this for a living! Or even major in Japanese! Great Idea, Right?<\/p>\n<p>WRONG.<\/p>\n<p><em>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singlenesia.com\/\" rel=\"external\">singlenesia<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So You Want To Learn Japanese. You&#8217;ve eaten at a few Japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a Japanese girlfriend. And now, somewhere in the back of your tiny brain, you think that Japanese would be a good language to learn. Hey, you could translate video games! Or Manga! Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}