{"id":430,"date":"2017-07-29T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T07:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2017-07-29T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T07:29:47","slug":"the-that_1707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/the-that_1707","title":{"rendered":"The that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\u201cCan you get that for me?\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThat is interesting, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<br \/>\nThese are an example of a typical conversation in Japan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is hard to understand the expression &#8216;that&#8217;? But I will try to explain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMost Japanese have a skill of mind reading.<br \/>\nIt is called \u2018Sontaku\u2019 in Japanese.<br \/>\n\u2018Sontaku\u2019 is very important in Japan.<br \/>\nIf a person is not good when it comes to \u2018Sontaku\u2019, he\/she is said to be incompetent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s check in a Japanese meeting.<br \/>\nThere are some things that might confuse you.<br \/>\nTheir expressions are vague, further more 99% of the expressions that they use starts with the word \u2018that\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI do not tell a lie. Listen, do you think how I was born?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne day, \u201cHoney how about let us do \u2018that\u2019 tonight?\u201d My dad said, my mom agreed and right after that I was born.<br \/>\nSurely, &#8216;that&#8217; is true.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\n\"Can you get that for me?\"\nIt is typically conversation in Japan.\n\"That was interesting, wasn't it?\"\nThis expression is as same too.\n\nCan't you understand 'that' meaning?\nMost Japanese has a skill of mind reading.\nit is said that 'Sontaku' in Japanese.\n\n'Sontaku' is very important in Japan. If who can't 'Sontaku', he\/she is said incompetent.\nLet you see the Japan's meeting. You must be confusing. Their's expressions are 99% only 'that'.\nI do not tell a lie. Actually, even I was born from 'that'.\n\"Honey how about you to 'that' tonight?\" My dad said, My mom agreed and I was born. That's true.\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCan you get that for me?\u201d. \u201cThat is interesting, isn\u2019t it?\u201d These are an example of a typical conversation in Japan. It is hard to understand the expression &#8216;that&#8217;? But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dailylife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomonishintaku.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}