{"id":131,"date":"1999-11-20T11:14:17","date_gmt":"1999-11-20T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"1999-11-20T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"1999-11-20T05:14:17","slug":"language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/131","title":{"rendered":"Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could read books meant for a twelve-year-old, but had only minor success with newspapers and textbooks. Mind you, I wasn&#8217;t particularly interested any more. I began to realise that the Proficiency Test wasn&#8217;t important to me. I had nothing to prove. I knew my Japanese was good. I knew because I did all my business in Japanese with very few misunderstandings. I also knew because people had stopped telling me my Japanese was good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could read books meant for a twelve-year-old, but had only minor success with newspapers and textbooks. Mind you, I wasn&#8217;t particularly interested any more. I began to realise that the Proficiency Test wasn&#8217;t important to me. I had nothing to prove. I knew my Japanese was good. I knew because I did all my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/131\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language<\/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\/131"}],"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=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}