{"id":28085,"date":"2012-12-01T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=28085"},"modified":"2012-12-01T13:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T17:30:23","slug":"cracked-com-5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-living-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/01\/cracked-com-5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-living-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracked.com:  5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I don&#8217;t know if the author is a JET alum, but it&#8217;s definitely a unique perspective that most JETs will appreciate and could likely write themselves. \u00a0Thanks to JET alums Carol Elk and Shannon Copp for alerting me to this article via Facebook.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20118_5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-living-in-japan.html\"><strong>5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living in Japan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Charlie Jones<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I achieved alpha-geek status among my friends by moving to Japan. Since then, all I&#8217;ve been hearing from them is how lucky I am and how they would murder any endangered species still clinging tenaciously to existence in exchange for permission to live in my closet. And I totally get it, because come on, it&#8217;s Japan &#8212; the wackiest, most interesting place on the planet. Who wouldn&#8217;t want to live here?<\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230; you might not, actually. Because while there are plenty of great reasons to live in Japan, such as the low crime rate and the amazing public transportation system, there are a few things you should know before you decide to pack up your manga and hop on a jet across the Pacific, wearing rabbit ears and flashing peace signs at everyone who makes eye contact with you. For starters &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>#5. \u00a0Everything is frightfully low-tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20118_5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-living-in-japan.html\"><em><strong>CLICK HERE to read the full article on the Cracked.com website.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if the author is a JET alum, but it&#8217;s definitely a unique perspective that most JETs will appreciate and could likely write themselves. \u00a0Thanks to JET alums Carol Elk and Shannon Copp for alerting me to this article via Facebook. 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Living in Japan By Charlie Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveltourism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7iZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28089,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28085\/revisions\/28089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}