{"id":28,"date":"2008-06-21T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~espeed\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/japan-2-electric-boogaloo\/"},"modified":"2008-06-21T22:07:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T03:07:33","slug":"japan-2-electric-boogaloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/japan-2-electric-boogaloo\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2: Electric Boogaloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Summer is fully here and once again I find myself in Japan.\u00a0 This time, however, I&#8217;m not here as a tourist but as a productive member of society.\u00a0 Or something like that.\u00a0 Through the MIT Japan program (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/misti\/mit-japan\/\" title=\"MIT Japan Home Page\">info here<\/a>),\u00a0I&#8217;ve landed an internship with everyone&#8217;s favorite gaming company Square Enix.\u00a0\u00a0Square Enix is\u00a0great because not only do they make games (which is fun but not always exciting) but they also have an\u00a0Advanced Research\u00a0Group which does cutting edge work in fields related to game technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">My goal (with\u00a0this blog)\u00a0this time around is to have short posts which generally concern one thing.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see if I&#8217;ll actually be able to work that out or not, but I&#8217;ll try.\u00a0 This post represents the introduction to my stay and won&#8217;t cover anything specific.\u00a0 As a preview of the next episodes, I&#8217;ll talk about my flight over here, my apartment, registering as a foreigner, and opening a bank account.\u00a0 Of course, I also have posts written about non Japan related topics which I&#8217;ll post intermittently as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to post some explanatory things which will help people get only the topics they want.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">For now, my room:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/toghosiroom.JPG\" title=\"My Room\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"322\" src=\"http:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/toghosiroom.JPG\" alt=\"My Room\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is fully here and once again I find myself in Japan.\u00a0 This time, however, I&#8217;m not here as a tourist but as a productive member of society.\u00a0 Or something like that.\u00a0 Through the MIT Japan program (info here),\u00a0I&#8217;ve landed an internship with everyone&#8217;s favorite gaming company Square Enix.\u00a0\u00a0Square Enix is\u00a0great because not only do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erekspeed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}