{"id":17129,"date":"2011-02-27T21:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T01:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=17129"},"modified":"2011-02-27T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T01:28:32","slug":"foxhound-hokkaido-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/27\/foxhound-hokkaido-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"FoxHound: Hokkaido Part 3"},"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>Instead of hitting the mountain for another day of skiing (an extra 100  bucks for everything), I decided to join other JETs in visiting Otaru.  Otaru is a fishing town about 2 hours from Niseko famous for sushi,  glass blowing, and music boxes. I know, pretty eclectic eh?<\/p>\n<p>After  we arrived at the main station in Otaru, a Hokkaido JET took us on a  quick tour of the town. She walked us down the main street, pointing out  the most visible landmarks so we could find our way back. After the  grand tour, we chose a time to meet up and we all separated. First on  our list was food.<\/p>\n<p>It is unfortunate that in a town famous for  sushi, I despise sushi. There were sushi restaurants everywhere. Luckily  for my wallet, they were all really expensive which priced myself and  one other from eating there. The average set cost about $30. Instead, I  ate soup curry. It is just like normal curry, except it is thinner, like  a soup. It was good.<\/p>\n<p>I toured the city with another Nara JET.  Let&#8217;s call her Banshee (xmen names). We stopped by a glass-blowing shop  to observe the process. It was neat. They even let children come in and  try some of the techniques. They let them blow into the tube. I wanted  to try, but it seems that children get preference. Stupid children.<\/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. Instead of hitting the mountain for another day of skiing (an extra 100 bucks for everything), I decided to join other JETs in visiting Otaru. Otaru is a fishing town about 2 hours [&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-17129","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-4sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129","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=17129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17130,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129\/revisions\/17130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}