{"id":577,"date":"2010-01-10T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T04:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/?p=577"},"modified":"2010-01-10T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T04:15:48","slug":"i-found-the-messiah-in-nagoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2010\/01\/10\/i-found-the-messiah-in-nagoya\/","title":{"rendered":"I found The Messiah in Nagoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found The Messiah in Nagoya.  I am not talking about the great work by Handel.  Although it is as much an Easter piece as it is a Christmas piece, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen any production listed here recently.  Nor have I had any particular epiphanies and found, you know, Him.<\/p>\n<p>While killing time before I got my haircut, I walked around the neighborhood of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hair-nagoya.com\/hair5\">Hair Make Arm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S<\/a>.  Yes, that is the name of the place where I get my hair cut.  I have NO idea why the last S is capitalized, but it is.  As I was walking, I noticed a restaurant and found that, strangely enough, it is called <a href=\"http:\/\/\u00e3\u0192\u00a1\u00e3\u201a\u00b5\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00a2.jp\/\">Messiah<\/a>.  According to the dictionary on my Mac,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>mes\u00c2\u00b7si\u00c2\u00b7ah |m\u00c9\u2122\u00cb\u02c6s\u00c4\u00ab\u00c9\u2122|<\/strong><br \/>\nnoun<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> ( <strong>the Messiah<\/strong>) the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Jesus regarded by Christians as the Messiah of the Hebrew prophecies and the savior of humankind.<br \/>\n<strong>2<\/strong> a leader or savior of a particular group or cause :<em> to Germany, Hitler was more a messiah than a political leader.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DERIVATIVES<\/p>\n<p><strong> mes\u00c2\u00b7si\u00c2\u00b7ah\u00c2\u00b7ship<\/strong> |-\u00cb\u0152 sh ip| noun<\/p>\n<p>ORIGIN Old English Messias: via late Latin and Greek from Hebrew <strong>m\u00c4\u0081\u00c5\u00a1\u00c4\u00aba\u00e1\u00b8\u00a5 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcanointed.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this case, the Messiah appears to be Italian, and even offers a Messiah Party Plan (\u00e3\u0192\u00a1\u00e3\u201a\u00b5\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00c2\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u2018\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u0192\u2020\u00e3\u201a\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u0192\u2014\u00e3\u0192\u00a9\u00e3\u0192\u00b3).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/messiah1.jpg\" alt=\"Restaurant Messiah\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/messiah2.jpg\" alt=\"Restaurant Messiah\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/messiahmenu.jpg\" alt=\"Restaurant Messiah Menu\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting.  I do hesitate somewhat posting this as it is sure to generate some even stranger hits and more spam comments.  Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found The Messiah in Nagoya. I am not talking about the great work by Handel. Although it is as much an Easter piece as it is a Christmas piece, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen any production listed here recently. Nor have I had any particular epiphanies and found, you know, Him. While killing time before I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2010\/01\/10\/i-found-the-messiah-in-nagoya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I found The Messiah in Nagoya&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}