{"id":437,"date":"2012-05-16T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=437"},"modified":"2012-05-16T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:04:36","slug":"the-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"The Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumo\"><strong>Sumo<\/strong><\/a> is <strong>awesome<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-442\" title=\"Sumo15thMay2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sumo15thMay2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sumo15thMay2012.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sumo15thMay2012-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ry%C5%8Dgoku_Kokugikan\"><strong>the stadium<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438\" title=\"RyogokoKogugikan15thMay2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RyogokoKogugikan15thMay2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RyogokoKogugikan15thMay2012.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RyogokoKogugikan15thMay2012-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I love the build-up rituals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-443\" title=\"SumoBuildUp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SumoBuildUp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SumoBuildUp.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SumoBuildUp-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and of course &#8211; though they&#8217;re not easy to photograph! &#8211; I love watching the <strong>bouts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-447\" title=\"SumoWidescreen15thMay2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SumoWidescreen15thMay2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SumoWidescreen15thMay2012.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SumoWidescreen15thMay2012-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See the black-clad umpires all around the ring? They&#8217;re called in whenever it&#8217;s hard to decide the winner. Laura and I have made a hard decision too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Japan is wonderful in all sorts of ways, but we&#8217;ve now admitted to ourselves that for us <strong>it&#8217;s never going to be home<\/strong>. We&#8217;ve had a lot of fun imagining it could be, though. And we&#8217;re going to do our damnedest to squeeze everything we can out of the rest of our time here. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumo is awesome. I love the stadium&#8230; &#8230;I love the build-up rituals&#8230; &#8230;and of course &#8211; though they&#8217;re not easy to photograph! &#8211; I love watching the bouts. See the black-clad umpires all around the ring? They&#8217;re called in whenever it&#8217;s hard to decide the winner. Laura and I have made a hard decision too. 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