{"id":45,"date":"2011-07-19T12:54:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2011-08-13T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:39:35","slug":"maniakku","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"Maniakku"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;In modern Japanese slang, therefore, an <em>otaku<\/em> is an enthusiastic fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby&#8230;. The term otaku used by itself just means &#8220;fanatic&#8221;. Japanese culture has many other varieties, such as <em>p\u00c4\u0081sokon otaku<\/em> (personal computer geeks), <em>g\u00c4\u201cmu otaku<\/em> (playing video games)&#8230;. the word can be applied to literally anything. Thus, one could have music otaku, martial arts otaku, cooking otaku, train otaku (metrophiles), etc. The word <em>maniakku<\/em> (from English &#8220;maniac&#8221;) is sometimes used to indicate someone whose interest is strong, but not obsessive or unhealthy&#8230;.&#8221; <em>&#8211;Wikipedia, entry for &#8216;otaku&#8217;, as of 11\/15\/05<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you were expecting this to be a blog only about religion, you will be disappointed, because while I&#8217;m interested in religion, I am not a religion maniakku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In modern Japanese slang, therefore, an otaku is an enthusiastic fan of any one particular theme, topic, or hobby&#8230;. The term otaku used by itself just means &#8220;fanatic&#8221;. Japanese culture has many other varieties, such as p\u00c4\u0081sokon otaku (personal computer geeks), g\u00c4\u201cmu otaku (playing video games)&#8230;. the word can be applied to literally anything. Thus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8054,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/8054"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}