{"id":116,"date":"1998-08-20T10:42:19","date_gmt":"1998-08-20T04:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"1998-08-20T10:42:19","modified_gmt":"1998-08-20T04:42:19","slug":"alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/116","title":{"rendered":"Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d really been looking forward to a BBQ at the beach the following weekend, but even that became a frustrating experience. It was organised by the company volleyball club &#8211; the only place I&#8217;d found untainted by gaijin &#8211; and I was looking forward to being able to swim, eat good food and get to know the other members. In my mind, I saw us sitting under a tree in a park. There would be a strip of white sand between us and the ocean, barely visible between all the pretty girls sun baking. We&#8217;d set up a volleyball court in the shade and have a light game after scoffing down a meal. I just wasn&#8217;t ready for the reality of a Japanese beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d really been looking forward to a BBQ at the beach the following weekend, but even that became a frustrating experience. It was organised by the company volleyball club &#8211; the only place I&#8217;d found untainted by gaijin &#8211; and I was looking forward to being able to swim, eat good food and get to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/116\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}