{"id":15593,"date":"2026-08-19T08:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/?p=15593"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:31:42","slug":"reuniting-with-an-old-classmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/reuniting-with-an-old-classmate","title":{"rendered":"Reuniting with an Old Classmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost stayed at the hotel for the whole day. I had cold duck soba noodles for lunch. They were quite tasty, and they cost 900 JPY. I stopped by a secondhand bookstore and bought three books. One of the books was my favorite book, called Shukke to Sono Deshi (The Priest and His Disciples), so I gave it to Eri. All three books were only 100 JPY each. I went to Kitahama Station with Eri. I met Sawai-kun there just after 7 pm. He took us to the bar Shimane-ya. It was quite a luxurious bar, but all the food was delicious. It was the first time in my life that I had met one of my elementary school classmates again. It gave me mixed feelings. When we were paying the bill, Sawai-kun paid 10,000 JPY, so we only had to pay 2,000 JPY each. I was astonished by his generosity and hospitality. After that, I visited the bar Zenpou, which we had visited the night before. It had the same nice atmosphere as before. Eri went to the onsen by herself, so I went to a takoyaki bar on my own. I only had takoyaki and Hoppy. I returned to the hotel, took a shower, and then went to bed around midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost stayed at the hotel for the whole day. I had cold duck soba noodles for lunch. They were quite tasty, and they cost 900 JPY. I stopped by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15596,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15593\/revisions\/15596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}