{"id":216,"date":"2003-04-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shiromi.com\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/travel\/japan\/20030426.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T16:00:00","slug":"im-going-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/im-going-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Really nothing new on this website today but I just wanted to express my anger against this period of time in Tokyo when the elections come&#8230;<br \/> It is absolutely unbearable &#8230; Cars go around all the districts with huge speakers, while there&#8217;s a lady in the car shouting in the mic with an very bothering voice &#8220;vote for X for the district of Y &#8230; vote for X for the district of Y &#8230;&#8221;<br \/> I mean is what politics is all about in Japan ?! This is mind torturing\/brain washing, that&#8217;s it !<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m wondering what the people who do that are actually thinking &#8230;<br \/>&#8220;Hmmm &#8230; I don&#8217;t know who to vote for because I haven&#8217;t got enough information on their plans &#8230;  Why not the one who shouted the loudest and the most, preventing me from having a peaceful week-end ?&#8221;<br \/> Yeah, that must be what they think people will behave when the time comes to go voting &#8230; <\/p>\n<p> The best part is that there are so many candidates that you can be sure to get at least one within 10 minutes, and that lasts for the whole week-end, from 8am to 8pm (actually, I assume they do that during the week too but I can&#8217;t tell from the 15th floor where my office is). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really nothing new on this website today but I just wanted to express my anger against this period of time in Tokyo when the elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiromi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}