{"id":2012,"date":"2012-05-31T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2012-05-29T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:26:39","slug":"j-word-play-june-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/2012\/05\/j-word-play-june-12\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>J-Word Play:<\/B> June &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u201a\u00e4\u00bd\u2022\u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00b8\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u2039\u00e5\u203a\u00bd\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e3\u0081\u00a9\u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00ef\u00bc\u0178<\/h2>\n<h2>(\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u201a\u00e3\u0081\u00aa\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00b8\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e3\u0081\u00a9\u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00ef\u00bc\u0178)<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n(SELECT THE AREA BELOW TO SEE THE ANSWER)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Answer: \u00e6\u0153\u009d\u00e9\u00ae\u00ae (\u00e3\u0081\u00a1\u00e3\u201a\u2021\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u203a\u00e3\u201a\u201c, Korea)<\/p>\n<p>Our riddle asks &#8220;Where is a country that is always challenging itself?&#8221; (I think this is the smoothest translation. In Japanese people &#8220;challenge&#8221; something. In English we challenge ourselves to do something)<\/p>\n<p>The answer, as you might expect, is a pun. \u00e6\u0153\u009d\u00e9\u00ae\u00ae \u00ef\u00bc\u02c6\u00e3\u0081\u00a1\u00e3\u201a\u2021\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u203a\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00ef\u00bc\u2030means Korea; that is, the area including both North and South. The same reading with different characters gives you \u00e6\u0152\u2018\u00e6\u02c6\u00a6 (also \u00e3\u0081\u00a1\u00e3\u201a\u2021\u00e3\u0081\u2020\u00e3\u0081\u203a\u00e3\u201a\u201c), which means to challenge or try.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u201a\u00e4\u00bd\u2022\u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00b8\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u2039\u00e5\u203a\u00bd\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e3\u0081\u00a9\u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00ef\u00bc\u0178<br \/>\n(\u00e3\u0081\u201e\u00e3\u0081\u00a4\u00e3\u201a\u201a\u00e3\u0081\u00aa\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0081\u00e3\u0192\u00a3\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u0192\u00b3\u00e3\u201a\u00b8\u00e3\u0081\u2014\u00e3\u0081\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u2039\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u0081\u00af\u00e3\u0081\u00a9\u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00ef\u00bc\u0178)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[84,270],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ht-square2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}