{"id":20,"date":"2004-11-29T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T02:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2004\/11\/29\/kidnapping-my-wife\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T01:22:47","slug":"kidnapping-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2004\/11\/29\/kidnapping-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapping my wife."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Okazaki, Japan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kiyomi and I went to <a title=\"Okazaki City Hall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.city.okazaki.aichi.jp\/kurasi\/english\/guide.htm\">City Hall<\/a> today to apply for my registration card (makes me sound like a dog, doesn&#8217;t it? <em>Woof!<\/em>) and we were told that we have to supply two passport sized photographs with the application. Ok, not a problem let me get them out of my wallet. Ack, one. Not a problem the lady behind the counter gave us a map to a local camera shop that took passport sized photos. We&#8217;d go there, get them and come back.<\/p>\n<p>Walking to the shop an old man passes us (on his bike) and says something to us. Couldn&#8217;t quite make out what he said, I replied with &#8216;what was that?&#8217; He looked at us again and rode off. Strange fellow.<\/p>\n<p>We found the shop and I was about to head in when he rides up to me again and, in English, asks me if &#8220;she is my wife?&#8221; I reply &#8220;Yes she is&#8221;, he then starts apologising and says that he &#8220;thought I was kidnapping her&#8221;&#8230;.! WTF? What gave it away that I was kidnapping her? The fact she wasn&#8217;t struggling? The fact we were talking together?<\/p>\n<p>Passport photos were 1,000yen for two, so we found the nearest automatic photo booth and got four for 600yen. I reckon that Camera Shop and City Hall must&#8217;ve had some deal going&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Went back, applied for my registration card and was told it should be ready early in the new year, until then wherever I go I have to take my passport with me! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okazaki, Japan: Kiyomi and I went to City Hall today to apply for my registration card (makes me sound like a dog, doesn&#8217;t it? Woof!) and we were told that we have to supply two passport sized photographs with the application. Ok, not a problem let me get them out of my wallet. Ack, one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}