{"id":1312,"date":"2011-02-14T22:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/02\/14\/"},"modified":"2011-02-14T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:49:12","slug":"japan-1-0-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/02\/14\/japan-1-0-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan 1 &#8211; 0 Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is old news, Japan won the <a href=\"[http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/en\/tournaments\/men-a-youth\/afc-asian-cup\">AFC Asian Cup<\/a> on January 29.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"450\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aQnbGeU-JBI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kanamori-san and I planned to meet to watch the finals together.  I thought it started at 10:00 pm, but actually it started at Midnight.  We were planning on going to a sports bar, but all sports bars were packed by the time we arrived.  Really packed.  The first one actually wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so crowded, but there was a cover charge of 3000 yen (over $30) and since Kanamori-san wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t drinking, it was deemed to pricey.  We went from bar to bar, only to learn that we couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enter.  I guess others thought that going to a bar was a good idea as well.<\/p>\n<p>We watched a lot of the first half standing outside of a bar called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bar-and-restaurant.com\/en\/mexigan.html\">Mexigan<\/a> (I have no idea why it is called Mexigan with a Mexican theme).  It was a very cold night, and I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure I wanted to stand the whole time.  Kanamori-san warmed up with a hot tea while I had a beer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/ac_mexigan.jpg\" alt=\"Watching the match, on the outside looking in\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We decided to head back to my place for the second half.  I felt bad, since Kanamori-san had driven and wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t planning on crashing at my place, he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t drink.  Apparently he also has a much bigger TV at home, so instead of watching the match with a bunch of really excited Japanese in a bar, we were watching from my living room, drinking tea (well, I was still drinking beer), on a smaller TV.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I had a good time.  The match was really good, and the room was a lot warmer than standing outside a bar.  The game went to extra time, and an amazing goal by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tadanari_Lee\">Tadanari Lee<\/a> sealed the cup for Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is old news, Japan won the AFC Asian Cup on January 29. Kanamori-san and I planned to meet to watch the finals together. I thought it started at 10:00 pm, but actually it started at Midnight. We were planning on going to a sports bar, but all sports bars were packed by the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/02\/14\/japan-1-0-australia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Japan 1 &#8211; 0 Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}