{"id":15093,"date":"2010-11-26T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15093"},"modified":"2010-11-26T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T07:00:23","slug":"foxhound87-diwali-a-festivals-of-lights-part-2-just-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/26\/foxhound87-diwali-a-festivals-of-lights-part-2-just-desserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxhound87: Diwali: A Festivals of Lights Part 2: Just Desserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Joshua Small <\/em><\/strong><em>is a First Year JET currently living in Ikaruga-cho, Nara-ken and has been chronicling his experience on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Snorlax87<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since Diwali is the festival of lights, a couple JETs provided some  cheap sparklers for us to light following dinner. We had to leave the  hotel, so we moved the party to a courtyard in front of the Nara Visitor  Center. Most people left to do other things. About 14 of us stuck  around for the sparklers. Our merry group of foreigners lit sparklers  and danced around. We were having a grand ol&#8217; time until the fuzz showed  up. Yes, between conducting traffic with light sabers and trolling the  prefecture for a Mr. Dounut, the police took an interest in our  festivities. Myself and one other JET tried to sneak away from the  group, but were caught and asked to return. Damn. 2 others DID manage to  sneak away.  As they hobbled into the train station, I yelled (as only a  true hypocrite can), &#8220;Cowards!&#8221; They got away, we didn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"> <\/a>to read the rest of the post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Small is a First Year JET currently living in Ikaruga-cho, Nara-ken and has been chronicling his experience on his blog Snorlax87. Since Diwali is the festival of lights, a couple JETs provided some cheap sparklers for us to light following dinner. We had to leave the hotel, so we moved the party to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3Vr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15094,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15093\/revisions\/15094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}