{"id":22113,"date":"2003-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/nhk-dramas\/"},"modified":"2003-09-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T06:00:00","slug":"nhk-dramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/nhk-dramas\/","title":{"rendered":"NHK Dramas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/asadora\/kokoro\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20030922_kokoro.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lately we have been watching these two dramas on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvjapan.net\/\">TV Japan<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/asadora\/kokoro\/index.html\">Kokoro<\/a> is actually ending this week. The story is about the workers in a ryokan, and it is kind of silly. Last week there was an episode where two of the guests (real life comedians) helped entertain a group of businessmen who came to eat unagi. The crisis was that the ryokan didn&#8217;t have any wild unagi, only farm-raised. In the end, they found some wild unagi, and the comedians entertained (stalled) the businessmen while the eel was cooked. I am amazed how they could come up with these plots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhk.or.jp\/drama\/archives\/nikoniko\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20030922_nikoniko.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mariko is really enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhk.or.jp\/drama\/archives\/nikoniko\/\">Niko Niko Diary<\/a> which is on every night too. This one is only 15 minutes per episode, and is more serious. I have to admit, it is pretty good! Too bad I have to bother Mariko all the time to ask her what is going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately we have been watching these two dramas on TV Japan. Kokoro is actually ending this week. The story is about the workers in a ryokan, and it is kind of silly. Last week there was an episode where two of the guests (real life comedians) helped entertain a group of businessmen who came to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/nhk-dramas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NHK Dramas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5KF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}