{"id":203,"date":"2010-04-09T23:32:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/?p=203"},"modified":"2018-04-22T23:33:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T13:33:18","slug":"not-a-complete-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2010\/04\/09\/not-a-complete-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a (complete) good start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t mention though you may have guessed that all the parents (and teachers) who attended the entrance ceremony were dressed very well: suit and tie, nice dresses, shiny shoes \u2013 the lot (It was a very special occasion.) The only thing that took anything away from this event was the fact that as it was inside a Japanese school building (hall) there\u2019s the policy of taking off your shoes and putting on (indoor) slippers.<\/p>\n<p>Here you have lots of people dressed very nicely with little blue plastic house slippers on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know, wearing slippers along with a suit \/ tie or dress does tend to take something away from the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t mention though you may have guessed that all the parents (and teachers) who attended the entrance ceremony were dressed very well: suit and tie, nice dresses, shiny shoes \u2013 the lot (It was a very special occasion.) The only thing that took anything away from this event was the fact that as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}