{"id":77,"date":"2021-06-06T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2021-06-20T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T07:41:04","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/06\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1010478_2.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P1010478_2.jpg\" alt=\"P1010478 2\" width=\"673\" height=\"455\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am a content writer, essayist, sometimes public radio announcer, actor, and jack-of-all trades, and have lived in Japan since the early 1980s. I moved to Toride city in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, in November 2020, and buying a house there, away from Tokyo, has both been challenging and very satisfying. Closeness with nature can inspire you in many ways, and as I entered this new phase in life at a time when people would usually start thinking about retiring, I felt the need to share my impressions about life in Japan as I am discovering new activities, getting in better shape, physically and mentally, and preparing for a post-pandemic era.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a content writer, essayist, sometimes public radio announcer, actor, and jack-of-all trades, and have lived in Japan since the early 1980s. I moved to Toride city in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, in November 2020, and buying a house there, away from Tokyo, has both been challenging and very satisfying. Closeness with nature can inspire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeinjapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}