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In the United States we would say “Do not enter” or “One Way.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Japan, the worlds most polite nation, they will suggest but not tell you directly what to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We followed “the usual route.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and we came to this beautiful garden view:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Life is Good.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the United States we would say “Do not enter” or “One Way.” In Japan, the worlds most polite nation, they will suggest but not tell you directly what to do. We followed “the usual route.” and we came to this beautiful garden view: Life is Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[295,19],"tags":[1497,96,314],"class_list":["post-20478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-signs-2","category-travel","tag-japan","tag-signs","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4425.jpeg?fit=1500%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20480,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20478\/revisions\/20480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}