{"id":54349,"date":"2015-03-24T05:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=54349"},"modified":"2015-03-24T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T20:20:09","slug":"euros-buy-or-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=54349","title":{"rendered":"Euros:  Buy?  or Wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m finally going to europe!  throughout my traveling career, i&#8217;ve never had the desire to go to europe.  i thought i&#8217;d wait to get older so i can enjoy the art, museums, and culture.  and now since i like wine, i can&#8217;t wait to try some fine wine.  another reason why i didn&#8217;t go was because it was so expensive.  well, not anymore!  the euros came down to almost an even 100 and supposed to come down even more.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/euro-0105.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/euro-0105.jpg\" alt=\"euro-0105\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54350\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe last time the euros was at this level was in 2003.  i&#8217;m going to buy some euros when or if it hits 90, put it under my pillow, and finally take the european vacation i&#8217;m really looking forward too.  Bonjour!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Japanese-American-Flag1-420x279.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Japanese-American-Flag1-420x279.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese-American-Flag1-420x279\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54527\" \/><\/a><br \/>\noh, there are many frequent questions that people ask me.  i will start addressing them so here&#8217;s the first one.<br \/>\nQ:  &#8220;are you half?  or quarter?&#8221;<br \/>\nA:  &#8220;no, i&#8217;m not half, or i&#8217;m not quarter.  i&#8217;m 4th generation japanese\/american.  my great grandparents immigrated from hiroshima and kumamoto.  they got married, then my grandma and grandpa were born.  they were both 100% 2nd generation japanese\/american.  then my mom and dad were 100% 3rd generation japanese\/american.  so i&#8217;m the 4th generation and full 100% japanese blood.  so when a japanese person asks me &#8220;are you half?&#8221;  i tell them &#8220;no, i&#8217;m full japanese just like you.  the only difference is i was born in hawaii and i speak weird japanese.&#8221;   haha.  by the way, i&#8217;m very proud to be 100% japanese.  i love the people, food, and culture so much that i feel so japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m finally going to europe! throughout my traveling career, i&#8217;ve never had the desire to go to europe. i thought i&#8217;d wait to get older so i can enjoy the art, museums, and culture. and now since i like wine, i can&#8217;t wait to try some fine wine. another reason why i didn&#8217;t go was [&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-54349","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\/54349","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=54349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}