{"id":190,"date":"2004-03-16T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2004\/03\/16\/this-aint-no-valentines-day-mister\/"},"modified":"2004-03-16T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-16T21:56:00","slug":"this-aint-no-valentines-day-mister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2004\/03\/16\/this-aint-no-valentines-day-mister\/","title":{"rendered":"This Ain&#8217;t No Valentines Day, Mister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sensei:<\/strong> Laura San, dare ni chokoreto wo agemasuka? <em>(Laura San, who do you give chocolates to?)<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/><strong>Laura:<\/strong> Uh&#8230; tomodachi ni? <em>(Uh&#8230; to my friends?)<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/><strong>Sensei:<\/strong> Sensei ni! <em>(To the teacher!)<\/em> &#8230; <strong>whoa, whoa, whoa! wait a minute, to <em>him<\/strong>!?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A few seconds later \u2014after I blushed and leafed through the textbook to see if I had skipped something I had to read, and choked in exclamations of &#8220;dokode!?&#8221; and &#8220;nani!?&#8221;\u2014, he gave us an explanation on Valentines Day in Japan, when girls give chocolates to boys and even to their (male) teacher. This explanation didn&#8217;t stop me from wondering why he had chosen <strong>me<\/strong> to say such a thing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensei: Laura San, dare ni chokoreto wo agemasuka? (Laura San, who do you give chocolates to?) Laura: Uh&#8230; tomodachi ni? (Uh&#8230; to my friends?) Sensei: Sensei ni! (To the teacher!) &#8230; whoa, whoa, whoa! wait a minute, to him!? A few seconds later \u2014after I blushed and leafed through the textbook to see if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}