{"id":3379,"date":"2010-07-24T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T05:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2010-07-24T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T05:34:49","slug":"lost-in-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/24\/lost-in-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is just mind-boggling how many Japanese have come away convinced that I must be a US citizen, on account of my shirt having a tiny US flag shoulder patch (right above where it proclaims in large gold stitch letters that I am a &#8220;Boy Scout of America&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this lack in the whole irony concept, puts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org\/?p=4646\">some of the clothing commonly spotted through the streets of Japan<\/a> in a radically new, slightly scary, perspective&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is just mind-boggling how many Japanese have come away convinced that I must be a US citizen, on account of my shirt having a tiny US flag shoulder patch (right above where it proclaims in large gold stitch letters that I am a &#8220;Boy Scout of America&#8221;). On the other hand, this lack in [&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":[9,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","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=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}