{"id":477,"date":"2011-10-09T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T23:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2011-10-09T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T23:33:44","slug":"unexpected-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/09\/unexpected-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was doing something completely unrelated to anything involving Japanese when I ran into one of the words I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/my-recent-dictionary-history\/\">listed here<\/a>. I was playing a non-Japanese game (Infamous 2)*, when a new trophy popped up that said: \u3057\u3063\u307a\u8fd4\u3057. Sweet, I <i>just<\/i> learned that word! What are the odds that a word I just learned popped up so soon in some other completely different place? They must be pretty good, <i>because it happens all the time<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>*So if you set your language settings for your PS3 to Japanese, the trophies are translated into Japanese for some games even if the game itself doesn&#8217;t have a lick of Japanese in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was doing something completely unrelated to anything involving Japanese when I ran into one of the words I listed here. I was playing a non-Japanese game (Infamous 2)*, when a new trophy popped up that said: \u3057\u3063\u307a\u8fd4\u3057. Sweet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/09\/unexpected-surprise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}