{"id":2034,"date":"2002-10-25T20:48:33","date_gmt":"2002-10-25T20:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2002-10-25T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2002-10-25T20:48:33","slug":"my_mom_would_ki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"My mom would kill me if I tried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/correspondent\/2334893.stm\">this<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormwerks.com\/linked\/\">#!\/usr\/bin\/girl<\/a>.  Supposedly teenage boys in japan are becoming hermits.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Teenage boys in Japan&#8217;s cities are turning into modern hermits &#8211; never leaving their rooms. Pressure from schools and an inability to talk to their families are suggested causes. Phil Rees visits the country to see what the &#8220;hikikomori&#8221; condition is all about.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>I knew him only as the boy in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>His mother, Yoshiko, wouldn&#8217;t tell me his name, fearful that neighbours in this Tokyo suburb might discover her secret.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Her son is 17 years old. Three years ago he was unhappy in school and began to play truant.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Then one day, he walked into the family&#8217;s kitchen, shut the door and refused to leave. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>All I know is that if I tried to do that with my mom&#8217;s kitchen, she&#8217;d kill me.  I joke with being a hermit, but this puts me to shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read about this over at #!\/usr\/bin\/girl. Supposedly teenage boys in japan are becoming hermits. Teenage boys in Japan&#8217;s cities are turning into modern hermits &#8211; never leaving their rooms. Pressure from schools and an inability to talk to their families are suggested causes. Phil Rees visits the country to see what the &#8220;hikikomori&#8221; condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}