{"id":7731,"date":"2009-07-29T21:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2009-07-29T21:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T01:46:34","slug":"i-survived-i-survived-a-japanese-gameshow-7-29-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/29\/i-survived-i-survived-a-japanese-gameshow-7-29-09\/","title":{"rendered":"I Survived &#8220;I Survived a Japanese Gameshow&#8221; 7.29.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"isurvivedjapanese\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/isurvivedjapanese.jpg\" alt=\"isurvivedjapanese\" width=\"176\" height=\"88\" \/>Just stumbled into &#8220;I Survived a Japanese Gameshow&#8221; again, halfway into the program.\u00a0 One team is learning how to be samurai and participating in a samurai parade.\u00a0 The other group learned how to cut down bamboo and then take the bamboo and carve it into chopsticks.<\/p>\n<p>Two things occurred to me as I watch this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This might be the best tourism promotion for Japan they could possibly hope for.\u00a0 It gives people a real sense of Japan and a connection to it.<\/li>\n<li>What the hell do samurai parades and chopstick making have to do with the gameshow?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thus far, the show seems to be a greater enigma than Japan ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just stumbled into &#8220;I Survived a Japanese Gameshow&#8221; again, halfway into the program.\u00a0 One team is learning how to be samurai and participating in a samurai parade.\u00a0 The other group learned how to cut down bamboo and then take the bamboo and carve it into chopsticks. Two things occurred to me as I watch this: [&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":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-japan-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-20H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}