{"id":163,"date":"2012-03-15T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=163"},"modified":"2012-03-15T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:08:31","slug":"peace-on-earth-penguins-and-being-glad-to-get-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Peace on Earth, Penguins and Being Glad To Get Back To Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s been a fine first week back here in Tokyo. My adventures so far have included a first encounter with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kabuki\">kabuki<\/a> <\/strong>at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntj.jac.go.jp\/english\/access\/facilities_01.html\">The National Theatre of Japan<\/a>,<\/strong> <strong><\/strong> catching a bit of last weekend&#8217;s Peace on Earth tsunami memorial festival in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hibiya_Park\"><strong>Hibiya Park<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-164\" title=\"PeaceOnEarthFestivalHibiyaPark\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PeaceOnEarthFestivalHibiyaPark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PeaceOnEarthFestivalHibiyaPark.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PeaceOnEarthFestivalHibiyaPark-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;and meeting <strong>these dudes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-165\" title=\"HibiyaParkTopiaryPenguins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HibiyaParkTopiaryPenguins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HibiyaParkTopiaryPenguins.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/HibiyaParkTopiaryPenguins-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But mostly, as on my previous visit, my life here looks like <strong>this<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-166\" title=\"MyDeskInTokyo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MyDeskInTokyo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MyDeskInTokyo.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/MyDeskInTokyo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m now over forty thousand words into the first draft of <strong>my latest book<\/strong>. For reasons I don&#8217;t entirely understand, right now I seem to get a lot more writing done here in Tokyo than I have been doing lately at home in London. That&#8217;s good, because this is going to be a <strong>big story<\/strong>, there&#8217;s <strong>a lot of work to do<\/strong> &#8211; and best of all, <strong>I&#8217;m enjoying it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Life is good and I am very lucky. HEE HEE HEE HEE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a fine first week back here in Tokyo. My adventures so far have included a first encounter with kabuki at The National Theatre of Japan, catching a bit of last weekend&#8217;s Peace on Earth tsunami memorial festival in Hibiya Park&#8230; &#8230;and meeting these dudes: But mostly, as on my previous visit, my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwaha-bwahahahaha","category-sam-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}