{"id":508,"date":"2023-11-20T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:22:55","slug":"the-japan-times-the-little-truck-that-could-a-fresh-way-to-tour-japans-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"The Japan Times &#8211; The little truck that could: A fresh way to tour Japan&#8217;s north"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is IMG_6384-1024x768.png\" class=\"wp-image-515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image.png 1024w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2023\/11\/06\/travel\/travel-japan-kei-truck\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2023\/11\/06\/travel\/travel-japan-kei-truck\/\">My first ever long-form feature article.<\/a> It recounts a journey in my little green kei truck, which my college flatmate and I drove from central Japan to its northernmost island. Throughout, I interview travellers, truck enthusiasts, and drift racers to get to the heart of why Japan&#8217;s quintessential minitrucks are so loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-little-truck-that-could-combined.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of The-little-truck-that-could-combined.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-690c1f57-8c90-466c-aec4-1356f95d0c3f\" href=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-little-truck-that-could-combined.pdf\">The-little-truck-that-could-combined<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/The-little-truck-that-could-combined.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-690c1f57-8c90-466c-aec4-1356f95d0c3f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first ever long-form feature article. It recounts a journey in my little green kei truck, which my college flatmate and I drove from central Japan to its northernmost island. Throughout, I interview travellers, truck enthusiasts, and drift racers to get to the heart of why Japan&#8217;s quintessential minitrucks are so loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}