{"id":76,"date":"2012-02-23T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=76"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:36:31","slug":"new-friends-new-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"New Friends, New Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tickets are booked. We’re almost set. In a couple of weeks’ time I’ll be back in Japan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a lovely time in London \u2013 launching O<\/strong>, catching up with friends and family, doing fun stuff \u2013 but as the day of my return to Tokyo gets closer I can’t help but get very, very excited<\/strong>. My first trip to Japan left me fascinated, rabid to discover more. But as well as new experiences to look forward to, there are people I met there and things I saw that I can hardly wait to see again<\/strong>. Like these dudes<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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In the Shibuya<\/strong><\/a> branch of Mandarake<\/strong><\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026by the cabinets of collectible figurines<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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…there are big signs telling you not to take photos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t use flash\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026and tried (and probably failed) to be subtle\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026but I couldn’t resist<\/strong>. I mean, look at this:<\/p>\n

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Here’s to new friends <\/strong>and new adventures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On a related note, this week on Trapped By Monsters:<\/strong> Ready Player One <\/em><\/strong>by Ernest Cline<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tickets are booked. We’re almost set. In a couple of weeks’ time I’ll be back in Japan. I’ve had a lovely time in London \u2013 launching O, catching up with friends and family, doing fun stuff \u2013 but as the day of my return to Tokyo gets closer I can’t help but get very, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sam-in-japan","category-try-this-its-brilliant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}