{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-23T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-06T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T04:32:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog tracks my interests in Japanese literature, popular and other kinds of music (from Japan and elsewhere), creative writing, film, politics, sumo, baseball, The Kinks, and whatever else strikes my fancy.  More information about me is available at my homepage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bourdaghs.com\">www.bourdaghs.com<\/a>). The title of the blog comes from a 1973 song recorded by the legendary Japanese rock band, Happy End. All opinions, rational conclusions, emotional outbursts, etc., are mine and mine alone.  All errors are the fault of someone else.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/Sayonara-resources-index.html<br \/>\nAn online companion for my book, Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop, is available <a href=\"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/Sayonara-resources-index.html\" title=\"Online Resources for Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You can also follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sayonaraamerika\" title=\"Sayonara Amerika Twitter Feed\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"twitter-timeline\"  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sayonaraamerika\" data-widget-id=\"519342787544633344\">Tweets by @sayonaraamerika<\/a><br \/>\n            <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+\":\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Michael K. Bourdaghs<\/p>\n<div class='shareinpost'><ul class=\"socialwrap row\"><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Bookmark this post : About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog on Delicious'  href='http:\/\/delicious.com\/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fpage_id%3D2&amp;title=About+%E2%80%9CSayonara+Amerika%2C+Sayonara+Nippon%E2%80%9D+blog'  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='delicious'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:32px;width:32px;background-position:-231px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Bookmark on Delicious<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Digg this post : About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog'  href='http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fpage_id%3D2&amp;title=About+%E2%80%9CSayonara+Amerika%2C+Sayonara+Nippon%E2%80%9D+blog&amp;bodytext=This+blog+tracks+my+interests+in+Japanese+literature%2C+popular+and+other+kinds+of+music+%28from+Japan+and+elsewhere%29%2C+creative+writing%2C+film%2C+politics%2C+sumo%2C+baseball%2C+The+Kinks%2C+and+whatever+else+strikes+my+fancy.++More+information+about+me+is+available+at+my+homepage+%28www.bourdaghs.com%29.+The+title+of+the+blog+comes+from'  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='digg'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:32px;width:32px;background-position:-297px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Digg this post<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Recommend this post : About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog on Facebook'  href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fpage_id%3D2&amp;t=About+%E2%80%9CSayonara+Amerika%2C+Sayonara+Nippon%E2%80%9D+blog'  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='facebook'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:32px;width:32px;background-position:-396px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Recommend on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Share this post : About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog on Reddit'  href='http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fpage_id%3D2&amp;title=About+%E2%80%9CSayonara+Amerika%2C+Sayonara+Nippon%E2%80%9D+blog'  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='reddit'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:32px;width:32px;background-position:-1749px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">share via Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Share this post : About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog with Stumblers'  href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fpage_id%3D2&amp;title=About+%E2%80%9CSayonara+Amerika%2C+Sayonara+Nippon%E2%80%9D+blog'  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='stumble'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:32px;width:32px;background-position:-1980px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Share with Stumblers<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Tweet this post : About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog on Twitter'  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fpage_id%3D2&amp;text=\"  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='twitter'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:32px;width:32px;background-position:-132px -33px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Tweet about it<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a rel=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?page_id=2&feed=rss2\" title=\"Follow this post : About &#8220;Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon&#8221; blog comments\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif\" height=\"32\"  width=\"32\" style=\"background: transparent url(https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/32\/sprite-feb-32.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:32px;width:32px;background-position:-1782px 0px\" class=\"image-32\"  alt=\"rss\" \/> <span class=\"head\">Subscribe to the comments on this post<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"clean\"><\/div> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog tracks my interests in Japanese literature, popular and other kinds of music (from Japan and elsewhere), creative writing, film, politics, sumo, baseball, The Kinks, and whatever else strikes my fancy. More information about me is available at my homepage (www.bourdaghs.com). The title of the blog comes from a 1973 song recorded by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}