{"id":7917,"date":"2009-08-05T21:58:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T01:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2009-08-05T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T03:00:10","slug":"i-survived-watching-i-survived-a-japanese-game-show-8-5-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/05\/i-survived-watching-i-survived-a-japanese-game-show-8-5-09\/","title":{"rendered":"I Survived Watching &#8220;I Survived a Japanese Game Show&#8221; 8.5.09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sharetv.org\/images\/i_survived_a_japanese_game_show-show.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"204\" \/>This week after watching a game involving trampolines and contestants wearing gorilla gloves and popping balloons on the ceiling, the two teams are separated into separate days&#8217; activities.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s team appeared on the Zoom In morning show.\u00a0 And the guys&#8217; team had to work for a bento delivery company.\u00a0 Watching them ride around on bikes, making a late delivery to an irate customer after getting lost and then accept payment from an old woman of about $70 in change was actually kind of neat.<\/p>\n<p>The net effect of the show seems to consistently be to make Japan feel a little more real and accessible.\u00a0 Kind of ironic since the gameshow part of the show accomplishes the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update:<\/span> Japanese Defense Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yuriko_Koike\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yuriko Koike<\/strong><\/a> is on the show?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update:<\/span> Sticky floors and biting squid heads!?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update:<\/span> Cathy wins!!!\u00a0 Bring on the &#8220;Omedetou Mob&#8221; (same guys as the Sayonara Mob but in white suits.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I admit it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hooked just as the show is ending.\u00a0 Great season finale.\u00a0 <em>O-tsukara sama deshita.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week after watching a game involving trampolines and contestants wearing gorilla gloves and popping balloons on the ceiling, the two teams are separated into separate days&#8217; activities. The women&#8217;s team appeared on the Zoom In morning show.\u00a0 And the guys&#8217; team had to work for a bento delivery company.\u00a0 Watching them ride around on [&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-7917","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-23H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","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=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7920,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}