{"id":312,"date":"2009-06-09T22:57:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-06-09T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T13:57:05","slug":"ichiro-%e2%80%93-two-degrees-of-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/06\/09\/ichiro-%e2%80%93-two-degrees-of-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ichiro \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Two degrees of separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/sm_ichiro.jpg\" alt=\"I almost know this guy\" width=\"175\" height=\"161\" \/>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize at first that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ichiro_Suzuki\">Ichiro<\/a> is from the Nagoya area.  But, it turns out, he is.  Now, of course, many Japanese that I meet tell me of their connection to Ichiro.  Someone I consider a friend told me he played on the same club in junior high as Ichiro.  Another guy at a gas station told the car, when he found out that we were Americans, that he went to high school with Ichiro.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure others have their stories too.<\/p>\n<p>If you discount the gas station attendant, I trust my friend, and that puts me only two degrees of separation from Ichiro.  That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty cool and opens a LOT of doors for me.  And yes, I can get to Kevin Bacon in two degrees by one path, and three quite easily in another path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize at first that Ichiro is from the Nagoya area. But, it turns out, he is. Now, of course, many Japanese that I meet tell me of their connection to Ichiro. Someone I consider a friend told me he played on the same club in junior high as Ichiro. Another guy at a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/06\/09\/ichiro-%e2%80%93-two-degrees-of-separation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ichiro \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Two degrees of separation&#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-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}