{"id":134,"date":"2000-02-20T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2000-02-20T05:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2000-02-20T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2000-02-20T05:20:36","slug":"novelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/134","title":{"rendered":"Novelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has to do with the fact that <em>gaijin<\/em> are still a novelty in Japan. It&#8217;s normal for kids on the street to start calling out when they see a Caucasian. <em>&#8220;gaijin da. haroo. haroo. zisu izu a pen.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s a gaijin. Hello. Hello. This is a pen. The last is the first full sentence they learn at school, and it&#8217;s not uncommon for adults to respond with this if you ask them if they speak English. We&#8217;d both been the centre of attention at school, and Damion described his treatment as somewhere between hospitality and being a new pet. The same thing happened when he moved to work in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has to do with the fact that gaijin are still a novelty in Japan. It&#8217;s normal for kids on the street to start calling out when they see a Caucasian. &#8220;gaijin da. haroo. haroo. zisu izu a pen.&#8221; It&#8217;s a gaijin. Hello. Hello. This is a pen. The last is the first full sentence&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/asia\/japan\/book\/134\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Novelty<\/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\/134"}],"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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}