{"id":578,"date":"2011-08-26T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2011-08-26T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:29:24","slug":"back-in-austin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/archives\/578","title":{"rendered":"Back in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from 3 months working in Japan on an assignment.  It was a very interesting experience, but I&#8217;m glad to be back with my family.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I noticed that I had never seen before: looking to buy a souvenir for a coworker back in Austin, my boss and I were in a high-scale department store in Fukuoka.  Since we were looking for something for my bosses admin, we were were in the beauty\/bath section.  It was a little strange, since were 1) the only males I could see <em>anywhere<\/em>, and the only foreigners I could see <em>anywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing that I thought was strange though:  I saw a girl wearing HUGE plastic horn-rimmed glasses, that quite obviously had <em>absolutely no lenses at all<\/em>.  I had no idea what to make of that, but evidently I&#8217;m not the first person to notice <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/07\/19\/what-is-the-deal-wit-1.html\">this<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/neojaponisme.com\/2011\/07\/19\/on-fake-glasses-in-japan\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neojaponisme+%28N%C3%A9ojaponisme%29\">trend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from 3 months working in Japan on an assignment. It was a very interesting experience, but I&#8217;m glad to be back with my family. One thing I noticed that I had never seen before: looking to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/archives\/578\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moroha.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}