{"id":89,"date":"2018-01-09T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T02:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/?p=89"},"modified":"2019-07-30T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:20:34","slug":"happy-new-year-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/2018\/01\/09\/happy-new-year-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to school everyone. It is the start of a New Year. 2018 is the year of the Dog in the Zodiac Calendar. Quickly, what 12 animals are on the Zodiac\u2026 GO!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/zodiac-animals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/zodiac-animals-644x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/zodiac-animals-644x326.jpg 644w, https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/zodiac-animals-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/zodiac-animals-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/zodiac-animals.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finished? China and Japan use almost the same animals, but there are a couple differences. See the animal on the bottom, second from the left? In Japan we would say it is a sheep, but in some parts of China they say goat. Also, the bottom right animal is a pig, but Japan uses a Japanese boar (\u30a4\u30ce\u30b7\u30b7).<\/p>\n<p>At New Years, many people make a New Year\u2019s Resolution. Usually people want to stop doing something bad, or start doing something good. Many popular ones are to stop smoking, or to start exercising. For me, I am going to use my train time to study kanji, rather than listening to music or sleeping. How about you? Is there something you want to change this year?<\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days?utm_campaign=tedspread--b&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=tedcomshare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this video.<\/a>\u00a0In the video, it says that if you really want a new habit to continue you need to do it for at least 30 days. After that it becomes easier to do. So, give it a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Welcome back to school everyone. It is the start of a New Year. 2018 is the year of the Dog in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shin-ai-english-compass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}