{"id":533,"date":"2023-11-20T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2024-03-22T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:22:55","slug":"gaijinpot-hitchhiking-in-japan-sado-island-and-the-kindness-of-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"GaijinPot &#8211; Hitchhiking in Japan: Sado Island and the kindness of strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7264-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7264-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7264-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7264-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7264-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_7264-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gaijinpot.com\/hitchhiking-in-japan-sado-island-and-the-kindness-of-strangers\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blog.gaijinpot.com\/hitchhiking-in-japan-sado-island-and-the-kindness-of-strangers\/\">In May, 2023, I travelled the circumference of Sado Island.<\/a> Off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, Sado floated as a famed place of exile for milenia. Wanting to find out whether the island still accepts vagrants from the mainland, I sought to hitchike around this oft-forgotten part of western Japan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, 2023, I travelled the circumference of Sado Island. Off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, Sado floated as a famed place of exile for milenia. Wanting to find out whether the island still accepts vagrants from the mainland, I sought to hitchike around this oft-forgotten part of western Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taliskersh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}