{"id":85018,"date":"2005-08-28T00:47:33","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=85018"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:56","slug":"catching-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20050828\/everyday-events\/catching-reptiles","title":{"rendered":"Catching Reptiles or Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! Once in a while I head home early, grab dinner, and just hang out&#8230;<br \/>\nThere are tons of geckos along the promenade in Nakameguro&#8230;<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s a challenge to see how many I can catch.<br \/>\nI caught 14 of them&#8230; wandering along the promenade with a plastic bag<br \/>\nTo be honest, I look pretty suspicious.<br \/>\nI caught so many that they started fighting inside the bag and some lost their tails&#8230;<br \/>\nThe gecko&#8217;s name comes from the characters for &#8220;house guardian&#8221; (\u5bb6\u5b88), so they&#8217;re supposed to bring good luck.<br \/>\nI released about five of them at home&#8230; they&#8217;re perfect for pest control<br \/>\nHuh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! Once in a while I head home early, grab dinner, and just hang out&#8230; There are tons of geckos along the promenade in Nakameguro&#8230; Today&#8217;s a challenge to see how many I can catch. I caught 14 of them&#8230; wandering along the promenade with a plastic bag To be honest, I look pretty suspicious. I caught so many that they started fighting inside the bag and some lost their tails&#8230; The gecko&#8217;s name comes from the characters for &#8220;house guardian&#8221; (\u5bb6\u5b88), so they&#8217;re supposed to bring good luck. I released about five of them at home&#8230; they&#8217;re perfect for pest control Huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-85018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}