{"id":327,"date":"2012-04-25T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=327"},"modified":"2012-04-25T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:00:32","slug":"i-am-unpleasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"I Am Unpleasant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=331\"><strong>I first got here<\/strong><\/a> my tastes in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanenglish\"><strong>Japanglish<\/strong><\/a> have developed a bit. I still enjoy it when it&#8217;s <strong>direct and to the point<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-328\" title=\"AllKindsOfSocksNakanoBroadway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AllKindsOfSocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AllKindsOfSocks.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AllKindsOfSocks-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but I&#8217;ve also learned to appreciate its tendency towards <strong>convolutedness<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-330\" title=\"IAmUnpleasant711Shimo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IAmUnpleasant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IAmUnpleasant.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IAmUnpleasant-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;its capacity for strange and delicate <strong>beauty<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329\" title=\"ALittleBitBitterKaldiShimo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ALittleBitBitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ALittleBitBitter.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ALittleBitBitter-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and, sometimes, its sense of <strong>mystery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-331\" title=\"GroinGroinNakano\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/GroinGroin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/GroinGroin.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/GroinGroin-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I first got here my tastes in Japanglish have developed a bit. I still enjoy it when it&#8217;s direct and to the point&#8230; &#8230;but I&#8217;ve also learned to appreciate its tendency towards convolutedness&#8230; &#8230;its capacity for strange and delicate beauty&#8230; &#8230;and, sometimes, its sense of mystery. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sam-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}