{"id":112,"date":"2009-06-02T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-06-02T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T23:56:10","slug":"back-from-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/back-from-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fbd_image_caption\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 1em; width: 340px; float: right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/graphics\/blog\/chatuchak_340_x_255.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tiny jars of tiny things\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cartoonist Ren&eacute; and special agent Sung doing something too obscure to explain, which seems to involve holding up tiny, tiny jars of tiny, tiny things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I am back in the UK after a seven-week trip to Bangkok. It was good to catch up with old friends in the Big Mango. Special thanks to Ben (and Buddy and Tiger) for looking after me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI also spent time hanging out with Ren&eacute;, who did the Fudebakudo <a href=\"\/en\/movies.html\" class=\"fbd_link\">animations<\/a> as well as the &#8220;guest illustrations&#8221; in the book. We had a number of cartoony adventures including almost &mdash; but not quite &mdash; having a climactic encounter with notorious yakuza boss Custard Kakamura*. The fact that I did not end up in one of the obese gangster&#8217;s bubbling yellow vats is a testament to how fast we ran away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMost of the time was spent working on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beholder.co.uk\/knots\/\" class=\"fbd_link_external\">The Knot-Shop Man<\/a><\/i> during the day, and training with the Thai aikikai in the evenings.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"fbd_grey_text\" style=\"clear: both; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #666666\">* Name has been changed to protect the innocent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoonist Ren&eacute; and special agent Sung doing something too obscure to explain, which seems to involve holding up tiny, tiny jars of tiny, tiny things. I am back in the UK after a seven-week trip to Bangkok. It was good to catch up with old friends in the Big Mango. Special thanks to Ben (and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/back-from-bangkok\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back from Bangkok&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}