{"id":18090,"date":"2012-05-19T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=18090"},"modified":"2012-05-19T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T05:00:31","slug":"retire-in-panama-and-eat-12000-hokkaido-melons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=18090","title":{"rendered":"Retire in Panama and eat $12,000 Hokkaido Melons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18091\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/apple-iphone-4-91-640x443.jpg\" alt=\"apple-iphone-4-91\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18091\" \/><\/a><br \/>\napple&#8217;s iPhone was japan&#8217;s No. 1 smartphone in 2011.  they sold 7.25M phones, which is 30% of the market.  i bet anyone that they will have 50% market share by 2013.  it&#8217;s just too good!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18092\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18092\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/one_million_yen_melons.jpg\" alt=\"one_million_yen_melons\" width=\"550\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-18092\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhen i first went to japan, i couldn&#8217;t believe how expensive the melons were.  i seen some for $500 and nobody here in hawaii would believe me.  well, they just sold a pair of hokkaido melons for 1 million yen, or $12,000 USD at the first auction of this years harvest season.  can i have a bite?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=18093\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Panama-jpg_211528.jpg\" alt=\"Panama-jpg_211528\" width=\"630\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-18093\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nyou want to retire on the pacific?  well, panama is the place to go.  at $1,200 or 100,000 yen a month, you can live a comfortable lifestyle in the emerging country&#8217;s Gold Coast in Las Tablas.  they have international standard medical facilities, affordable health insurance, and the US dollar is the currency there.  i think i might have to go check this place out.  i&#8217;ve always wanted to go to panama and check out the panama canal.  now i have another reason.  retire there?  no, just interested in this next major city.  30 years ago, you could live a comfortable lifestyle in hawaii for $1,200\/month.  but now?  no way!  rent cost more than that.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>apple&#8217;s iPhone was japan&#8217;s No. 1 smartphone in 2011. they sold 7.25M phones, which is 30% of the market. i bet anyone that they will have 50% market share by 2013. it&#8217;s just too good! when i first went to japan, i couldn&#8217;t believe how expensive the melons were. i seen some for $500 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}