{"id":286,"date":"2003-05-15T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=286"},"modified":"2003-05-15T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2003-05-15T21:52:09","slug":"its-difficult-to-say-how-i-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/05\/15\/its-difficult-to-say-how-i-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s Difficult To Say How I Feel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who says the Japanese aren&#8217;t emotional? A friend sent me an e-mail tonight with the following string of &#8220;emoticons&#8221; included in his message:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emoticons.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/emoticons.gif?resize=203%2C22\" width=\"203\" height=\"22\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe message itself seemed sane, but judging from the emoticons, I&#8217;d say medication is called for.<br \/>\n(For help deciphering these symbols, consult <a href=\"http:\/\/club.pep.ne.jp\/~hiroette\/en\/facemarks\/index.html\">this deconstruction of Japanese emoticons<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says the Japanese aren&#8217;t emotional? A friend sent me an e-mail tonight with the following string of &#8220;emoticons&#8221; included in his message: The message itself seemed sane, but judging from the emoticons, I&#8217;d say medication is called for. (For help deciphering these symbols, consult this deconstruction of Japanese emoticons.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-4C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}