{"id":2945,"date":"2016-12-12T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:47:47","slug":"the-japanese-ferry-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/12\/the-japanese-ferry-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese Ferry Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am waiting with my wife and two children at a ferry terminal in Western Japan<\/p>\n<p>Our ferry is due in two hours<\/p>\n<p>We have been in Japan for three days<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During my stay I found a wallet containing a great deal of money in a market<\/p>\n<p>I handed it to the son of a stall holder who spoke perfect English<\/p>\n<p>He said it was the property of an eccentric Samurai<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A ferry disaster is unfolding on the huge television screen at the terminal<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are chatting about the nearby shower rooms<\/p>\n<p>Which are unisex and are very well lit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A zebra is running the red bookstall although it is owned by the ferry company<\/p>\n<p>Most of the newspapers and journals are in Japanese<\/p>\n<p>Although some are available in English and French<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Small wooden souvenirs are for sale on a small table near the street side entrance<\/p>\n<p>These consist of jade elephants and cuddly bears<\/p>\n<p>The vendor a small Japanese woman tells me that she is a distant relative of Basho<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am waiting with my wife and two children at a ferry terminal in Western Japan Our ferry is due in two hours We have been in Japan for three days &nbsp; During my stay I found a wallet containing a great deal of money in a market I handed it to the son of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}