{"id":366,"date":"2005-06-07T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2005\/06\/too-much-shochu\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T17:54:29","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T17:54:29","slug":"too-much-shochu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2005\/06\/07\/too-much-shochu\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much shochu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/champon.blogspot.com\/\">real Kyushu danshi<\/a> would say, there&#8217;s no such thing as too much shochu. Well, Mark has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/champon.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/adams-sumo-prowess.html\">post<\/a> with a picture, that I didn&#8217;t know existed up until today, that makes a powerful case against downing a bottle of shochu as fast as you can, especially if you are attending a night time hanami party in front of Kumamoto Castle.<br \/>\nWith the sounds of 50 bumping from our ghetto blaster, I drank too much, too fast. The next thing I knew, I was persuaded to test my martial skills against the scantily clad natives. The shochu numbed my concerns, and I was cheared on until I felt victory was assured.<br \/>\nBut my head swam as I was thrown to the ground. As hard as I tried, I was unable to beat the salarymen in front of Kumamoto Castle in sumo, and I walked away in disgrace with a limp and some blood on my khakis.<br \/>\nSo know I know the rules, and should the opportunity present itself once again I will do better. First, I&#8217;m going to yank on the leopard print until it gets driven into the deepest of crevices with an Atomic wedgie.<br \/>\nIf that doesn&#8217;t work I&#8217;m going to kick him in the nuts, repeatedly. I have learned my lesson well. Next time its no mercy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A real Kyushu danshi would say, there&#8217;s no such thing as too much shochu. Well, Mark has written a post with a picture, that I didn&#8217;t know existed up until today, that makes a powerful case against downing a bottle of shochu as fast as you can, especially if you are attending a night time &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2005\/06\/07\/too-much-shochu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}