{"id":966,"date":"2025-01-16T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/?p=966"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:13:02","slug":"whats-my-name-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2025\/01\/16\/whats-my-name-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s My Name Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">As part of an effort to socialize more and preserve my language skills (both Japanese and English, which can dissolve in isolation despite the constant exposure), I joined a Meetup group and attended their weekly event for the first time in October last year. It proved fruitful, for the most part. I even made a friend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is how quickly I lost momentum in engaging in conversation with new people. Chitchat felt so easy and enjoyable back in October, but after a two-month year-end hiatus, I&#8217;ve fallen silent at the conversation table. I&#8217;m growing tired of introducing myself over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s important to remember, though, that this is a weekly language exercise. <em>Keywords: language, exercise.<\/em> Both language and exercise require discipline rather than motivation, as well as constant practice. So I guess I&#8217;ll have to keep showing up at the meetings if I want to reap the benefits I&#8217;m seeking\u2014even if it&#8217;s boring, even if I have to repeat my name ten times in a space of two hours just to come out feeling like I didn&#8217;t meet a single person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an effort to socialize more and preserve my language skills (both Japanese and English, which can dissolve in isolation despite the constant exposure), I joined a Meetup group and attended their weekly event for the first time in October last year. It proved fruitful, for the most part. I even made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}