{"id":13116,"date":"2014-05-06T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=13116"},"modified":"2014-05-06T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T13:49:41","slug":"oh-japan-you-never-cease-to-amuse-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/oh-japan-you-never-cease-to-amuse-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Japan, you never cease to amuse me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13117\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/oh-japan-you-never-cease-to-amuse-me\/moomin-japan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moomin-japan.png\" data-orig-size=\"453,457\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"moomin-japan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moomin-japan.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moomin-japan.png\" alt=\"moomin-japan\" width=\"453\" height=\"457\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moomin-japan.png 453w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moomin-japan-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/moomin-japan-396x400.png 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Table for one? Restaurant offers giant stuffed animals for company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to combat loneliness, a restaurant in Japan is offering its solo diners enormous stuffed animals to sit opposite<\/p>\n<p>Hate staring blankly at that empty restaurant seat? Always end up spilling food on your book? A restaurant in Japan has found the solution to lonely solo dining by offering its customers the option of eating opposite large stuffed animals. Let&#8217;s face it, finding a cuddly date for night out isn&#8217;t always easy &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The stuffed toys are characters from Finland&#8217;s Moomin books and are offered to customers by staff at the Moomin Cafe in Tokyo. <\/p>\n<p>But if Japan seems like a long way to go for a dinner date, there&#8217;s nothing to stop you recreating your own. The only major drawback is that they won&#8217;t be offering to pick up half the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Moomin Cafe has just opened a branch in New York, where eating alone is commonplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table for one? Restaurant offers giant stuffed animals for company In an attempt to combat loneliness, a restaurant in Japan is offering its solo diners enormous stuffed animals to sit opposite Hate staring blankly at that empty restaurant seat? Always end up spilling food on your book? A restaurant in Japan has found the solution&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/oh-japan-you-never-cease-to-amuse-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Oh Japan, you never cease to amuse me&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-shit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-3py","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13118,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions\/13118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}