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DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JULY 2, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hello Newsletter Readers. My next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column 53 will be coming out tomorrow, July 3, 2012, on the Japanese Government\u2019s renewed policy debate on creating conditions conducive to immigration (without actually portraying it in any way as \u201cimmigration\u201d (imin), just more NJ residents). It\u2019s their attempt to address Japan\u2019s demographic and probable economic nosedive despite their assiduous efforts over the decades to a) exploit NJ as temporary workers on a revolving-door labor visa regime, b) blame NJ for all manner of social ills, including foreign crime and desertion, and in the process c) poison the public debate arena for productive discussion about ever treating NJ well enough that they might want to actually stay (since the past three years have seen the NJ population continuously dropping, after 48 years of unbroken rise). The writing\u2019s on the wall, and the GOJ is finally doing something constructive. But (as usual) the bureaucracy is controlling the agenda, and the typical blind spots are coming into play, so as things stand now I think the policy drive will be ineffective.
\nSneak preview of the opening paragraphs at
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10384<\/a><\/p>\n

Now on with the Newsletter:<\/p>\n

TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nREOPENING THE IMMIGRATION POLICY DEBATE<\/strong>
\n1) GOJ embryonic policymaking reboot for \u201cco-existence with foreigners\u201d: Some good stuff, but once again, policy about NJ without any input from them<\/strong>
\n 2) GOJ Cabinet \u201cCoexistence with NJ\u201d Pt. 2: Critique of June 15, 2012 meeting \u2014 a very positive Third Act to this Political Theatre<\/strong>
\n 3) Asia Pacific Bulletin: \u201cAccepting Immigrants: Japan\u2019s Last Opportunity for Economic Revival\u201d; a little out of date<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHY ANY IMMIGRATION POLICY MIGHT NOT WORK<\/strong>
\n 4) NYT: A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands; the overwriting of NJ legacies in Ogasawaras<\/strong>
\n 5) Kyodo: Foreign caregiver exits put program in doubt, complete with editorial slant blaming NJ for being fickle<\/strong>
\n 6) The Govinda (Mainali) miscarriage of justice murder case ruled for retrial after 15 years, so Immigration deports him. But there\u2019s more intrigue.<\/strong>
\n 7) Japan Times LIFELINES guest columnist Dr Berger on \u201cDealing with isolation and exclusion in Japan\u201d. Seems grounded in stereotypes.<\/strong>
\n 8 ) China\u2019s crackdown on foreigners called \u201cxenophobic\u201d by CNN columnist. Yet Japan\u2019s been overtly doing the same to its NJ for generations without similar criticism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

… and finally…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

9) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column June 5, 2012: Guestists, Haters, the Vested: Apologists take many forms<\/strong>
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By ARUDOU, Debito (debito@debito.org, www.debito.org, Twitter arudoudebito)
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REOPENING THE IMMIGRATION POLICY DEBATE<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) GOJ embryonic policymaking reboot for \u201cco-existence with foreigners\u201d: Some good stuff, but once again, policy about NJ without any input from them<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Morris at H-JAPAN writes<\/strong>: A committee has been set up within the Cabinet Office of Japan, composed of the vice-ministers of the Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Ministiry of Law, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Education etc, Health etc, Agricutlure etc, Industry etc, Land etc, Police to investigate and recommend policy on \u201cco-existence with foreigners\u201d. Information on the committee can be found at the following URL:<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cas.go.jp\/jp\/seisaku\/kyousei\/index.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The documentation provided here gives a very succinct summary of what the government (national level bureaucrats?) of Japan think about \u201cforeigners\u201d here, and how they formulate their perceptions of what the \u201cproblems\u201d are, and very vaguely hint at where they see future solutions.<\/em><\/p>\n

SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS<\/strong>: This is not the first time the organs of the Japanese government have talked about \u201ccoexistence with foreigners\u201d (gaikokujin to no kyousei shakai jitsugen<\/em>), but more likely than not these happen at the local level (cf. the Hamamatsu Sengen, which happened repeatedly from over a decade ago yet was studiously ignored at the national level). Now that discussion on this is taking place at the national, Cabinet level, this is a positive development. However, these meetings (two so far, the first one was less than an hour) at the outset show the hallmarks of so much Japanese policymaking: a biased agenda (with all the normalized invective of \u201cwagakuni<\/em>\u201d (our country) semantically offsetting those foreigners (who have to \u201cco-exist\u201d with Japanese, not merge into one polity)) regarding the policy treatment of people without any input from the people being treated. Inevitable blind spots, such as an overemphasis on Nikkei and children\u2019s education, are already latent in the materials below. In any case, this is a very interesting and rare view into the dialogs and mindsets behind the creation of public policy re NJ in Japan. More detailed summaries and analysis follow below.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10271<\/a><\/p>\n

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2) GOJ Cabinet \u201cCoexistence with NJ\u201d Pt. 2: Critique of June 15, 2012 meeting \u2014 a very positive Third Act to this Political Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following up on my blog post of June 10: \u201cGOJ embryonic policymaking reboot for \u2018co-existence with foreigners\u2019\u201d, here is an evaluation of the GOJ\u2019s third meeting of June 15, 2012. I offer summaries of each presenter\u2019s materials below. My overall comment is that despite some fair-to-middling presentation styles (one a bit limply bureaucratic, another full of irrelevant chaff), all of them have their heart in the right place. Two of them I just wanted to hug the presenter afterwards for getting things right all the way down to the proper semantics (of seeing NJ as fellow \u201cresident\u201d with their own sense of \u201ccommunity\u201d; they even overrode the potentially dichotomous \u201ccoexistence\u201d meme for seeing NJ as perpetual outsiders to \u201chandle and administrate\u201d, which Japan\u2019s sweaty-handed bureaucrats can never get beyond). How much of this advice will be taken is another issue, but at least the advice is being given. It\u2019s a good Third Act in this political theatre. It\u2019s just a pity the short-sighted bureaucrats almost always get first dibs on agenda setting, with the people who might offer different opinions thrown in later down the line as an afterthought. And there\u2019s still no mention of that law against racial discrimination…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10359<\/a><\/p>\n

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3) Asia Pacific Bulletin: \u201cAccepting Immigrants: Japan\u2019s Last Opportunity for Economic Revival\u201d; a little out of date<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some evidence of how the debate regarding Japan\u2019s need for immigration is starting to percolate through USG policy circles — this time the Asia Pacific Bulletin. It\u2019s another well-intentioned brief article for busy policymakers, but with a couple of mistakes: 1) \u201csince the 2011 earthquake the number of foreign residents in Japan has also been on a downward trend\u201d is not quite right since it was on a downward trend before 3\/11 too (in fact, when I was debunking the \u201cFlyjin\u201d Myth in my Japan Times column I demonstrated how the decreasing trend in NJ numbers was largely unaffected by the multiple disasters); 2) the \u201cstagnant policy discussion at the national level\u201d has in fact been restarted and quite actively discussed starting from May onwards (perhaps after Mr. Menju sent the article to press, but the APB website notes their turnaround on articles is mere weeks), as has been discussed here in detail on Debito.org. But Mr. Menju does get some important things very, very right \u2014 as in the other J media-manufactured myth of NJ crime and social disruption (especially the NPA\u2019s involvement in cooking the numbers), how this dynamic forestalls a healthy discussion on immigration policy, and Japan\u2019s overall need for immigration despite all the years of active ignoring of local governments\u2019 advice on tolerance and acceptance. Decent stuff, and worth a read.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10373<\/a><\/p>\n

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WHY ANY IMMIGRATION POLICY MIGHT NOT WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n

4) NYT: A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands; the overwriting of NJ legacies in Ogasawaras<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many people sent me this important article, and I apologize for the amount of time it took to put it up. Here we have a fascinating case study of how Japan still to this day decides to overwrite indigenous difference within its own land. The case here is of the non-Wajin peoples (the Oubeikei, descendants of NJ sailors) on the outlying Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands (technically part of Tokyo-to, believe it or not). Not content to ignore the Oubeikei as minorities in Japan (despite having Japanese citizenship yet NJ ethnic diversity), the system (as witnessed in the non-preservation of history, see below) is now in the process of overwriting them as simply non-existent, thanks to the attrition of mortality.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a common tactic within the \u201cmonocultural\u201d meme in Japan: Simply pretend that diversity doesn\u2019t exist in Japan, and continuously assert that NJ are an exogenous force within Japan\u2019s history with only gaiatsu as an influence (from Commodore Perry on down). Meanwhile, Western media (and scholarship; don\u2019t forget the legacy of Reischauer) parrots and proliferates this fiction through canards such as the \u201cborrowing\u201d theory, i.e., \u201cJapan borrows \u2018things\u2019 [never people] from the outside world and uniquely \u2018Japanizes\u2019 them.\u201d This is how the legacies of NJ as resident and generational contributor to Japanese society are constantly downplayed and transmuted into, e.g., \u201ctemporary English teacher\u201d, \u201ctemporary fad sportsman\u201d, \u201ctemporary advisor\/researcher\u201d etc. \u2014 all memes that forever see NJ and their descendants as merely exceptional and subsumable with time (as was done with the postwar appearance of \u201ckonketsuji\u201d children of US-Japanese liaisons during The Occupation).<\/p>\n

And Japan wants the Northern Territories (Kuriles) back? Imagine what will happen to the Russian residents there? It\u2019s no longer a world where people can ignore Japan\u2019s past destruction of cultures (cf. the Ainu, the Okinawans, the Korean Kingdom, the indigenous Formosans), but neither can the GOJ simply assume that Asian-looking minorities can be rendered invisible (as many of the Russian residents are Caucasian) like the Zainichi Koreans and Chinese, etc. have been Nor can one assume that NJ will be allowed to assimilate properly into Japanese society while maintaining the dignity of diversity, even as the GOJ is now considering when advocating an actual NJ migration policy. The SOP is still, as is being witnessed below on the Ogasawaras, one of willful ignorance and othering, subsumption, and overwriting of history. It portends ill for Japan\u2019s future prospects as an international, multicultural, multiethnic society.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10337<\/a><\/p>\n

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5) Kyodo: Foreign caregiver exits put program in doubt, complete with editorial slant blaming NJ for being fickle<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kyodo article below, on how Indonesian and Filipina nurses and caregivers (even those who have passed the arduous qualifying exam) are leaving Japan anyway, has been featured within the comments section of another Debito.org blog entry (here). It seems to be gathering steam there, so let me post the article here as a stand-alone, and repost below it the subsequent replies from Debito.org Readers (the really good ones start doing the math, revealing there\u2019s something fishy going on at the administrative level, beyond just blaming the NJ caregivers for not doing what they\u2019re told after all the GOJ bullshit they\u2019ve put up with).<\/p>\n

My take on this Kyodo article is about the nasty little editorial slants and needles within. Particularly nasty is how all otherwise qualified NJ caregivers are suddenly unworthy of emptying Japanese bedpans just because some decide they have a life outside Japan. Quoth one professor with a PhD in nastiness at Todai (Kiyoshi Kitamura, a professor at the University of Tokyo\u2019s International Research Center for Medical Education): \u201cTo what extent would it be considered appropriate for the foreign caregivers\u2019 lives to be bound by the program? We must contemplate this, along with the question of whether the Japanese people are really up for nursing care provided by foreigners<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, Kyodo, is this news, or editorializing? \u201cYet as of June, five of them had quit and returned to Indonesia \u2018for personal reasons,\u2019 bringing great disappointment to the facilities that spent tens of millions of yen training them<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d Awww, diddums!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10340<\/a><\/p>\n

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6) The Govinda (Mainali) miscarriage of justice murder case ruled for retrial after 15 years, so Immigration deports him. But there\u2019s more intrigue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Making headlines this past week has been the Govinda Mainali Murder Case, a cause celebre I\u2019ve known about for years (thanks to a very active domestic support group with regular mailings in Japanese). It\u2019s come to a head, where DNA evidence has finally cast enough doubt on the evidence behind the conviction (see Yomiuri article immediately below), and it\u2019s come to light (see Japan Times editorial below) that the prosecution withheld (or didn\u2019t bother to have tested) vital evidence from the court (yes, they can do that in Japan) that would have exonerated him. It also put him in double jeopardy, meaning trying him more than once for the same crime (technically illegal, but yes, they can do that in Japan), reversing a not-guilty decision in lower court. As if that wasn\u2019t enough, note the date of the Yomiuri article below stating the negative DNA test (July 2011) \u2014 meaning it only took Japan\u2019s criminal justice system about a year for him to finally get his retrial, on top of the 15 years he\u2019s been incarcerated. And after all that, now that it looks like Govinda is going to have his name cleared, Immigration is just going to deport him. The police in Japan are sore losers.<\/p>\n

Now, check out the details in Terrie\u2019s Take below, where the plot really thickens because the murder victim, a prostitute in her off-hours, was an employee with TEPCO (yes, that TEPCO) with names of some high-level clients in her address books\u2026<\/p>\n

As Terrie Lloyd notes below (as have I in the Japan Times), the already prosecutor-heavy criminal justice system in Japan is even more so if the suspect is a NJ. More and more it looks like Govinda Mainali was actually a patsy for the powerful because he was a convenient foreigner for the Japanese police to pin this on. I\u2019ve already discussed in detail before how Japan\u2019s criminal investigation system is fully stacked against NJ victims (start here with the Scott Kang and Matthew Lacey Cases, then progress to the Suraj Case, where the police have still gotten away with murder). The Govinda Case is yet another case study for everyone to remember for when the NJ are potential perps. Can\u2019t win either way once the Japanese police get their hands on you.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9265<\/a><\/p>\n

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7) Japan Times LIFELINES guest columnist Dr Berger on \u201cDealing with isolation and exclusion in Japan\u201d. Seems grounded in stereotypes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Debito.org Reader Giantpanda sent the following as a blog comment, but let me open it up for discussion as a post of its own:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lifelines column in the Japan Times today features what could be an extremely interesting question \u2013 NJ dealing with isolation and exclusion in Japan. However, the writer [psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Berger of the Meguro Counseling Center] seems to place all the blame on NJ who end up developing depression or other psychological problems as a result of social exclusion on the NJ themselves. General message seems to be: Can\u2019t cope? It\u2019s not any fault of Japanese society. You are just nuts, or not \u2018resilient\u2019 enough. Can\u2019t make friends? Hang in there for a few more years and \u201ckeep your expectations in check\u201d. Oh, and get yourself a girlfriend. Those are much easier to come by than Japanese friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/fl20120619ll.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Did anyone else get the sense this was patronising to the extreme, and blames the victims for their own predicament?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

COMMENT FROM DEBITO<\/strong>: I\u2019m afraid I did a bit. There seemed to be too much generalization of interaction based upon stereotypes of Japanese people (and the presumption that the inmates have not in fact taken over the asylum). I think the good Doctor has read too much Reischauer or Jack Seward (he lost me when he brought in the \u201csaving face\u201d cultural chestnut). I know, I\u2019ve commented at length before on friendships in Japan, but I hope I came off as a bit more sophisticated than Dr. Berger\u2019s analysis. What do others think? I\u2019m genuinely curious.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10331<\/a><\/p>\n

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8 ) China\u2019s crackdown on foreigners called \u201cxenophobic\u201d by CNN columnist. Yet Japan\u2019s been overtly doing the same to its NJ for generations without similar criticism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s post is about geopolitics and concomitant media attitudes. Here we have an American media outlet (CNN) publishing a Old China Hand\u2019s fears about the \u201cspecter of xenophobia\u201d in China because of a crackdown on \u201cillegal foreigners\u201d. Fine, make that case. I would agree. It does encourage xenophobia.<\/p>\n

But note how what China is doing (and for what has been announced as a temporary amount of time, but nevertheless the precedent has been set) is what Japan\u2019s been doing for years, if not generations, to its foreigners: Random racial profiling street ID \u201cspot checks\u201d. Police hotlines to report \u201csuspicious foreigners\u201d. Preemptive measures during high-profile events to promote \u201cpublic security\u201d. Public funds for ferreting out \u201cforeign criminals\u201d through \u201cforeign DNA\u201d testing research (oh, wait, AFAIK that\u2019s just Japan). The CNN author\u2019s citations back to the Boxer Rebellion and public resentment towards \u201cforeign devils\u201d in Mao\u2019s China may be a tad alarmist (and any historian could match those with Japan\u2019s occasional ee ja nai ka anti-Christian demonstrations and the anti-foreign propaganda during WWII Japan (cf. Dower, War Without Mercy) \u2014 and then fear a backslide into bad habits), but the point is this:<\/p>\n

Why does China get harshly criticized for this yet Japan once again gets a free pass? Well, geopolitics, of course. Japan is a trusted ally, China is an untrustworthy adversary. CNN, your bias is showing. But it would be nice if the media could see the parallels sometime and similarly admonish Japan away from its xenophobia. Given Japan\u2019s ultrasensitivity to foreign media opinion, it might even deter.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10269<\/a><\/p>\n

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… and finally…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

9) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column June 5, 2012: Guestists, Haters, the Vested: Apologists take many forms<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zeit Gist Column 59\/Just Be Cause Column 52 for the Japan Times Community Page<\/strong>
\n Published June 5, 2012<\/strong>
\n DIRECTOR\u2019S CUT: Restoring a paragraph deleted from the print article (in parentheses)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s column on \u201cmicroaggressions\u201d was my most debated yet. Thanks for reading and commenting.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So this month, let\u2019s explore how the microaggression dynamic works in all societies, and why some people live in denial of it. Brace yourself for a bit of theory \u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

All societies, when defining themselves, decide who is \u201cus\u201d and who is \u201cthem.\u201d So do countries. In the name of sovereignty, nation-states must decide who is a member (i.e., a citizen) and who is not (i.e., a foreigner). (If they didn\u2019t, there\u2019d be no point to citizenship.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nation-states also perpetuate themselves by creating a feeling of community for their citizens \u2014 national narratives, invented traditions and official shared histories. So the concept of \u201cWho is \u2018us\u2019?\u201d gets created, reinforced and generationally encoded through the media, public policy, primary education, etc.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What about encoding \u201cWho is \u2018them\u2019?\u201d It is by nature a process of differentiation. Foreigners by definition have different legal, civil and political rights in any society. (They usually cannot vote, for example.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But differentiation is also codified in everyday interaction. To determine their community\u2019s borders and clarify their identity within it, people tend to contrast themselves with outsiders. This is a process of socially \u201cothering\u201d people.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eventually the presumptions of \u201cOthers\u201d as \u201cdifferent\u201d become normalized into mundane assumptions, such as stereotypes. Herein come the microaggressions…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rest of the article with links to sources at https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=10276<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alright, everyone, thanks for reading! ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

DEBITO.ORG NEWSLETTER JULY 2, 2012 ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TABLE OF CONTENTS
\nREOPENING THE IMMIGRATION POLICY DEBATE
\n1) GOJ embryonic policymaking reboot for \u201cco-existence with foreigners\u201d: Some good stuff, but once again, policy about NJ without any input from them
\n2) GOJ Cabinet \u201cCoexistence with NJ\u201d Pt. 2: Critique of June 15, 2012 meeting \u2014 a very positive Third Act to this Political Theatre
\n3) Asia Pacific Bulletin: \u201cAccepting Immigrants: Japan\u2019s Last Opportunity for Economic Revival\u201d; a little out of date<\/p>\n

WHY ANY IMMIGRATION POLICY MIGHT NOT WORK
\n4) NYT: A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands; the overwriting of NJ legacies in Ogasawaras
\n5) Kyodo: Foreign caregiver exits put program in doubt, complete with editorial slant blaming NJ for being fickle
\n6) The Govinda (Mainali) miscarriage of justice murder case ruled for retrial after 15 years, so Immigration deports him. But there\u2019s more intrigue.
\n7) Japan Times LIFELINES guest columnist Dr Berger on \u201cDealing with isolation and exclusion in Japan\u201d. Seems grounded in stereotypes.
\n8 ) China\u2019s crackdown on foreigners called \u201cxenophobic\u201d by CNN columnist. Yet Japan\u2019s been overtly doing the same to its NJ for generations without similar criticism.
\n… and finally…
\n9) My Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE Column June 5, 2012: Guestists, Haters, the Vested: Apologists take many forms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}