{"id":324,"date":"2006-07-08T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=324"},"modified":"2006-07-08T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T02:33:00","slug":"funny-english-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Funny english in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese love English, even if they don't speak it well.&nbsp; Most often this combination results in odd translations, or simply non-sensical words put together on a sign or t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes you get some very funny results, like these I saw on my trip:<br  \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Born to be chicken <i>(seen on a restaurant)<\/i><br  \/><\/p>\n<p>I love BBQ, it's mine <i>(seen on a restaurant)<\/i><br  \/><\/p>\n<p>Not Sleeping Around <i>(on the front of an oversize t-shirt worn by a woman in her late 30's with two kids)<\/i><br  \/><\/p>\n<p>The smell of Asian resort.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotel-ubud.com\/\">Hotel Ubud<\/a>. <i>(A sign on a lightpost, and also their website)<\/i><br  \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrish.com\/\">Engrish.com<\/a> which collects lots of funny Japanese English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese love English, even if they don't speak it well.&nbsp; Most often this combination results in odd translations, or simply non-sensical words put together on a sign or t-shirt. But sometimes you get some very funny results, like these I saw on my trip: Born <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=324\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}