{"id":210,"date":"2004-06-09T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2009-02-01T20:53:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T11:53:31","slug":"the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_211\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211\" title=\"Bus\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc00148.jpg\" alt=\"The local transport\" width=\"334\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc00148.jpg 334w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc00148-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The local transport<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another idea that has crossed my mind frequently over the last few weeks is that I should go and live in The Philippines. Not forever (at least not at this stage) but for a few months. I am trying to work out the logistics of such a move. What would happen to my apartment in Japan? Would it be worth continuing the lease (but paying my high rent even when I am not here) or should I become a nomad?<br \/>\nSell 95% of my possessions, put the rest in a backpack and head off to where the baluk is fresh, the beer flows freely and the peoples&#8217; smiles never fade.<br \/>\nWhat would I do? Would I have to do anything?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another idea that has crossed my mind frequently over the last few weeks is that I should go and live in The Philippines. Not forever (at least not at this stage) but for a few months. I am trying to work out the logistics of such a move. What would happen to my apartment in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}