{"id":623,"date":"2014-07-31T23:05:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-10-04T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T19:32:27","slug":"time-flies-when-you-are-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Time Flies  When You Are Getting Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not realize it until Monday, 30 years ago on July 1984, I step off a plane on my way to Yokosuka Japan where my ships USS Reeves (CG-24) and USS Midway (CV-41) were home ported . They were the best years of my life. My fellow shipmates could never understand why I did not want to go home during my leave. Simply I was overseas and want to see it all.<br \/>\nI made a special dinner of Tonkatsu (Japanese breaded pork cutlet) for dinner; it was probably my first meal in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tonkontsu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-624\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tonkontsu.jpg\" alt=\"Tonkontsu\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tonkontsu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tonkontsu-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tonkontsu-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not realize it until Monday, 30 years ago on July 1984, I step off a plane on my way to Yokosuka Japan where my ships USS Reeves (CG-24) and USS Midway (CV-41) were home ported . They were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,106,28],"tags":[283,284],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-food","category-general-culture","tag-japan","tag-yokosuka-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}