{"id":4619,"date":"2010-02-16T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2010-02-11T04:21:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T11:21:23","slug":"%e3%82%b9%e3%83%97%e3%83%bc%e3%83%88%e3%83%8b%e3%82%af%e3%81%ae%e6%81%8b%e4%ba%ba-sputnik-sweetheart-by-%e6%9d%91%e4%b8%8a%e6%98%a5%e6%a8%b9-haruki-murakami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/%e3%82%b9%e3%83%97%e3%83%bc%e3%83%88%e3%83%8b%e3%82%af%e3%81%ae%e6%81%8b%e4%ba%ba-sputnik-sweetheart-by-%e6%9d%91%e4%b8%8a%e6%98%a5%e6%a8%b9-haruki-murakami\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30b9\u30d7\u30fc\u30c8\u30cb\u30af\u306e\u604b\u4eba (Sputnik Sweetheart) by \u6751\u4e0a\u6625\u6a39 (Haruki Murakami)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375726055?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=rpcman&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0375726055 target=_new><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sputnik-sweetheart.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sputnik sweetheart\" width=\"336\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4620\" align=left srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sputnik-sweetheart.jpg 336w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sputnik-sweetheart-177x250.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=rpcman&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=0375726055\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=right><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375726055?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=rpcman&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0375726055\" target=_new><I>The Sputnik Sweetheart<\/I><\/a> was the third Murakami book I have read and second in the original Japanese. I almost gave up on it in the early going as it seemed rather boring. Things got far more interesting soon thereafter so I&#8217;m glad I stuck with it.<\/p>\n<p>Published in Japanese just three years before <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/kafka-on-the-shore\/><I>Kafka on the Shore<\/I><\/a>, there are many similar themes and items touched upon in these two works. I really enjoyed some of the messages near the end of the book and found them to ring very true.<\/p>\n<p>Being a work of fiction, I don&#8217;t want to give much away in my assessment. However, I will say that I&#8217;m glad to have read \u30b9\u30d7\u30fc\u30c8\u30cb\u30af\u306e\u604b\u4eba, and the Japanese is not very difficult if you can read at least a few hundred <i>kanji<\/I>. Also, I now want to visit Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sputnik Sweetheart was the third Murakami book I have read and second in the original Japanese. I almost gave up on it in the early going as it seemed rather boring. Things got far more interesting soon thereafter so I&#8217;m glad I stuck with it. Published in Japanese just three years before Kafka on [&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":[44,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619"}],"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=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}