{"id":21718,"date":"2020-03-25T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=21718"},"modified":"2025-02-02T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:19:46","slug":"the-mad-kyoto-shoe-swapper-and-other-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/the-mad-kyoto-shoe-swapper-and-other-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories<\/I> is a fun, little book for anyone with an interest in Japan. Some of the stories will probably have more impact for those foreigners who have lived in Japan for a while. The author, Rebecca Otowa, is such a person so she has the insight that those only casually acquainted with the Japanese culture will not.<\/p>\n<p>The stories are all over the place in terms of style and theme. Some are based on true events. <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the book and recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories is a fun, little book for anyone with an interest in Japan. Some of the stories will probably have more impact for those foreigners who have lived in Japan for a while. The author, Rebecca Otowa, is such a person so she has the insight that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21718"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30901,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions\/30901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}