{"id":1004,"date":"2005-06-21T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2005-07-23T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T07:14:49","slug":"japanese-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/21\/japanese-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I used to hate weddings; all the Grandmas would poke me and say, &#8220;You&#8217;re next sonny!&#8221;<br \/>\nThey stopped doing that when i started to do it to them at funerals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- picture_glue_start --> <a class=\"pic_link\" href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post1004\/nordine_masako.jpg\" target=\"zoom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo_justified\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post1004\/thumbnails\/nordine_masako.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"152\" alt=\"Picture nordine_masako.jpg\" \/><\/a> <!-- picture_glue_stop -->My friend Nordine is getting married this Friday. <\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the photo beside, tradition has been duly respected, pre-wedding pictures in traditional outfits included (you should see the one with the katana). Can you sense a certain Watanabe Ken complex? yea, me too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> Anyway, the photo studio probably thought Nordine was sufficiently <s>ridiculous<\/s> <s>cute<\/s> manly in his hakama to feature the shot on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studio-shimomura.co.jp\/shashinten\/\">their portfolio website<\/a>. Although maybe Masako&#8217;s smile may have helped a bit too.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the bride is a flight attendant on JAL, half the wedding guests will consist of Japanese air hostesses. Which makes an invitation to the reception worth at least a couple hundred thousand yens on Tokyo&#8217;s black market. But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll sell mine: much more to be made with hush money paid not to tell a single of the groom&#8217;s stories, back in his Roppongi days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to hate weddings; all the Grandmas would poke me and say, &#8220;You&#8217;re next sonny!&#8221; They stopped doing that when i started to do it to them at funerals. My friend Nordine is getting married this Friday. As you can see in the photo beside, tradition has been duly respected, pre-wedding pictures in traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}