{"id":67,"date":"2007-07-23T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-07-23T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T11:08:28","slug":"creepy-mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2007\/creepy-mascots","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Mascots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up too late today, having mistakenly set my alarm for seven instead of for six.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the first time not changing the time on my alarm clock to local time has gotten me.\u00c2\u00a0 So instead of dorm breakfast, I took the bread I&#8217;d bought yesterday and a bottle of water, dressed, and hurried out the door.\u00c2\u00a0 On the subway, instead of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanigawadake-rw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tanigawadake Ropeway<\/a> poster, I saw an ad for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chichibu-railway.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chichibu railway<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chichibu-railway.co.jp\/paleo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the creepiest mascot<\/a> I have ever seen.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know of a creepier one, send it to me!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, despite having slept an extra hour, I felt more tired during class than usual.\u00c2\u00a0 We had three more presentations, on a Japanese restaurant the Australian girl had gone to with her boyfriend as a birthday surprise for him, on Okinawa and the Hawaiian&#8217;s family members standing in front of a big bush trimmed to look like a crab, and on life in \u00c3\u0153r\u00c3\u00bcmqi and surroundings, which had everyone wanting to go even without showing a photo with cute girls.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently \u00c3\u0153r\u00c3\u00bcmqi is about as far from an ocean as one can get on earth.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For lunch, I ate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satsuma_age\" target=\"_blank\">satsuma-age<\/a> in a cellar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Izakaya\" target=\"_blank\">izakaya<\/a> that smelled stuffy and moldy.\u00c2\u00a0 The Wikipedia link on satsuma-age says less than I can: shredded fish with carrot and mushrooms fried in a batter and uber-tasty, especially when compared to the 600 yen it cost.\u00c2\u00a0 I had soon forgotten the smell of the place, especially as I got to savor a second delicacy: raw egg on a bowl of steaming sticky rice.\u00c2\u00a0 Try it!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, another thing I found out today: the Japan-Australia game was not finished when I left.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a quarterfinals game, and the Japanese won in penalty shoot-outs.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up too late today, having mistakenly set my alarm for seven instead of for six.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the first time not changing the time on my alarm clock to local time has gotten me.\u00c2\u00a0 So instead of dorm breakfast, I took the bread I&#8217;d bought yesterday and a bottle of water, dressed, and hurried out the door.\u00c2\u00a0 On the subway, instead of the Tanigawadake Ropeway poster, I saw an ad for the Chichibu railway.\u00c2\u00a0 It shows the creepiest mascot I have ever seen.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know of a creepier one, send it to me!\u00c2\u00a0 Oddly, despite having slept an extra hour, I felt more tired during class than usual.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}