{"id":928,"date":"2006-05-11T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2006-05-11T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T04:17:10","slug":"alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060509\/lf_nm\/japan_interiors_dc\">news story<\/a> today on the changing home environment in Japan.  It struck me as a little sad that, according to the report, some individuals saw these changes as a threat instead of simply an alternative for those who choose to adopt a change in their living quarters.  Maybe being from a different culture, and viewing alternatives as positive, makes the thought of having options a necessary part of adjusting to an ever changing world. And maybe those views seperate me from those who view options as threats.  But I can&#8217;t see a negative side to having options in making a house a home that relects the owner&#8217;s personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a news story today on the changing home environment in Japan. It struck me as a little sad that, according to the report, some individuals saw these changes as a threat instead of simply an alternative for those who choose to adopt a change in their living quarters. Maybe being from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-48","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}