{"id":1107,"date":"2022-02-28T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T06:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=messages&#038;p=1107"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:12:16","slug":"greetings-from-the-outskirts-of-kyoto-vol-17","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/1107\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time now, I have been dying my hair black. In reality, I am gray through and through. And recently I have started to go bald.<\/p>\r\n<p>I decided to dye my hair over thirty years ago now. Around that time, I often took my daughter to nursery school, and I would pick her up again afterwards. On one occasion, I was witness to children making fun of her. \u201cIt is your grandad again!\u201d My daughter would counter vigorously, weeping as she said: \u201cHe is not my grandad; he is my dad!\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>That is when I made up my mind. My daughter is now an adult, and I am a real grandad with grandkids of my own. I have been thinking it is about time I stopped dying my hair.<\/p>\r\n<p>But if I turn up at work with a head of gray hair, my colleagues may well be surprised. Allow me to take this opportunity, then, to give advance notice. I shall shortly be appearing with gray hair! There is a possibility, though, that I shall change my mind.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1102\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1102\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/202202-\uff4d01-03-700x490.jpg\" alt=\"\u6240\u9577\u9023\u8f09\u30a4\u30e9\u30b9\u30c8\" width=\"700\" height=\"490\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/202202-\uff4d01-03-700x490.jpg 700w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/202202-\uff4d01-03-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/202202-\uff4d01-03-245x172.jpg 245w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/202202-\uff4d01-03-490x343.jpg 490w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/202202-\uff4d01-03-900x630.jpg 900w, https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/nichibun_nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/202202-\uff4d01-03.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Inoue Sh\u014dichi<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1106,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-1107","messages","type-messages","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","message_category-serialization-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/messages"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}