{"id":7124,"date":"2012-01-15T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2012-01-15T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:40:07","slug":"real-men-call-themselves-ore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2012\/01\/15\/real-men-call-themselves-ore\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Men Call Themselves &#8220;Ore&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of my post on <a href=\"\/fun\/2009\/02\/21\/japanese-pronouns-in-anime\/\">Japanese pronouns<\/a> will be interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/ek20120116a1.html\">Kaori Shoji&#8217;s article<\/a> on pronoun usage in the contemporary Japanese dating scene.<\/p>\n<p>She describes an <em><a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews\/#ojou\">ojou-sama<\/a><\/em> who can&#8217;t stand men who call themselves <em>&#8220;ore&#8221;<\/em> (and would never permit anyone to call her <em>&#8220;omae&#8221;<\/em>.) But another woman confesses that she keeps falling for <em>ore<\/em>-users after having divorced a man who called himself <em>&#8220;boku.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The consensus seems to be that <em>boku<\/em>-users are boring indecisive &#8220;grass-eaters,&#8221; while <em>ore<\/em>-users are exciting, sexy and dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of my post on Japanese pronouns will be interested in Kaori Shoji&#8217;s article on pronoun usage in the contemporary Japanese dating scene. She describes an <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews\/#ojou\">ojou-sama<\/a> who can&#8217;t stand&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2012\/01\/15\/real-men-call-themselves-ore\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-japaneseculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}