{"id":15499,"date":"2010-12-13T09:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15499"},"modified":"2010-12-13T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:22:19","slug":"foxhound87-bon-enkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/13\/foxhound87-bon-enkai\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxhound87: B\u014dnenkai!"},"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>I recently went to my school&#8217;s Bon Enkai to celebrate the end of the fall term! It was amaaaaaaaazing!<\/p>\n<p>A  brief preface: The definition of \u201cenkai\u201d is merely \u201cparty; banquet\u201d but  it is also what greases the wheels of social communication in Japanese  culture. The enkai is usually a work party with a lot of drinking.<\/p>\n<p>My  school&#8217;s enkai was held at a major shrine in the city of Kashihara.  Kashihara is the 2nd largest city in Nara, with Nara City being it&#8217;s  largest.<\/p>\n<p>Given the terrible weather conditions, Storm and I  received a ride from S-Sensei to the enkai. After we arrived, we were  told to pick a table number out of a box to determine where we would sit  for the dinner. I thought I was being funny when I did the ol&#8217; &#8220;reach  my hand into the mysterious box and pretend like something grabbed it&#8221;  routine, but apparently my humor doesn&#8217;t reach across borders sometimes.  Storm and I pulled different table numbers, so we wouldn&#8217;t be sitting  together. After we pulled our number we were given scratch lottery  tickets. We were also told not to scratch them until the enkai starts&#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. I recently went to my school&#8217;s Bon Enkai to celebrate the end of the fall term! It was amaaaaaaaazing! A brief preface: The definition of \u201cenkai\u201d is merely \u201cparty; banquet\u201d but it is [&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-15499","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-41Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499","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=15499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15519,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions\/15519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}