{"id":445,"date":"2009-08-21T22:59:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/?p=445"},"modified":"2009-08-21T23:04:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:04:02","slug":"trans-tellie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/08\/21\/trans-tellie\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans tellie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a new drama coming out on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WOWOW\">WOWOW<\/a> cable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowow.co.jp\/index.php\">channel<\/a> here in Japan, interestingly title, &#8220;\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e6\u02dc\u201d\u00e3\u0192\u2018\u00e3\u0192\u2018\u00e3\u0081\u00a0\u00e3\u0081\u00a3\u00e3\u0081\u0178,&#8221; which translates to, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the past, mama was papa.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  I asked Tomo today if indeed that was what I thought it was \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowow.co.jp\/dramaw\/mamapapa\/\">a television drama about a transsexual<\/a>.  He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, it is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  He expressed his fear how the show might play out in terms of treating such a sensitive subject.  Transexuals are quite fashionable right now in Japan and appear on many game show \/ reality show \/  \u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u0192\u02c6 (talent) shows.  I guess WOWOW decided to cash in on that one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/mamapapa.jpg\" alt=\"The website homepage for the drama\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently I found it news worthy.  How did I find out about it?  I was reading advertising on the train.  I always look at the ads to see what I can and cannot read, try to figure out the meaning, etc.  I saw the ad and thought, &#8220;Wait a minute.  Is that what I think?&#8221;  My translation was just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a new drama coming out on WOWOW cable channel here in Japan, interestingly title, &#8220;\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0192\u017e\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e6\u02dc\u201d\u00e3\u0192\u2018\u00e3\u0192\u2018\u00e3\u0081\u00a0\u00e3\u0081\u00a3\u00e3\u0081\u0178,&#8221; which translates to, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the past, mama was papa.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I asked Tomo today if indeed that was what I thought it was \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a television drama about a transsexual. He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, it is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He expressed his fear how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2009\/08\/21\/trans-tellie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trans tellie&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}