{"id":25,"date":"2004-07-21T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2005-10-14T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T06:11:07","slug":"in-the-name-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"In the Name of Friendship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okinawans have a saying, &#8220;Once we have talked, we are friends.&#8221;  The saying itself is a nice sentiment, but is it a romanticized idea.  In my many years of experience, I do not think I have seen a relationship between S.O.F.A. status personnel and locals that doesn&#8217;t include some form of monetary benefit.   Whether it is the ever-smiling and &#8220;enthusiastic&#8221;  local girls squeezing a few free drinks from hard-up and lonely G.I.s or the ongoing &#8220;friendship&#8221; that includes a favor entailing the use of a few base privileges.  The local idea of friendship is primarily a business relationship masked as friendly banter between persons of two cultures.  I honestly ask if you are a S.O.F.A. status person who does have a friendly relationship with a local that never included the use of any base facility or privilege, please let me know.  I would love to hear your story.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okinawans have a saying, &#8220;Once we have talked, we are friends.&#8221; The saying itself is a nice sentiment, but is it a romanticized idea. In my many years of experience, I do not think I have seen a relationship between S.O.F.A. status personnel and locals that doesn&#8217;t include some form of monetary benefit. Whether it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-notes-2004","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}