{"id":86,"date":"2004-11-04T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2005-10-14T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T06:06:44","slug":"happy-days-are-here-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Happy Days Are Here Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes just running around the internet doing research or just for fun can lead to some interesting surprises.  Once again I have come across a website about Japan that very clearly expresses the surface of the culture on Okinawa.  Maybe the two cultures, although different, aren&#8217;t as different as they think?  Anyway, this weekend I happened to have been asked, again, why our beer prices were so high (the  $5.00 price at a Live Music Bar is considered to be reasonable over here).  This website has a very good explanation for that and many other aspects of the &#8220;Japanese&#8221; culture.  So check it out, you&#8217;ll be surprised by the frankness and detailed explanations<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejapanfaq.com\/FAQ-Prices.html\">Why Are Prices In Japan So Damn HIGH??<\/a>  I should add, this is obviously written from a male&#8217;s experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes just running around the internet doing research or just for fun can lead to some interesting surprises. Once again I have come across a website about Japan that very clearly expresses the surface of the culture on Okinawa. Maybe the two cultures, although different, aren&#8217;t as different as they think? Anyway, this weekend I [&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-86","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\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}