{"id":212,"date":"2004-11-11T06:16:33","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T06:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheresdrew.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2006-05-06T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T10:15:56","slug":"its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/2004\/11\/11\/its-official\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can stay!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI got my Certificate of Eligibility for my work visa today! That means I have official government approval to stay in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><b>YAY!!!!! ^.^<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Now, you may be thinking, &#8220;dude, if you didn&#8217;t have that yet, why the hell are you buying shit like furniture and iMacs?&#8221; Well, the approval process takes a while, and it&#8217;s pretty standard stuff, so I felt reasonably sure that it would get approved. I&#8217;ve got no criminal record, my diploma is legit, and I actually know what I&#8217;m doing (on most days) when it comes to my job &#8211; why would I get turned down?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know it happens sometimes, but I wasn&#8217;t worried. Besides, I wasn&#8217;t going to live out of my suitcase for two months and sleep on the floor while I waiting to get my CoE.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is a quick trip to Korea to go to the Embassy and get my visa entered into my passport. Yes, I know it&#8217;s possible to do it without leaving Japan in some cases, but it&#8217;ll give me a chance to take a little trip, hang out with some old friends and do a little shopping. So why not go?<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;m back, I should be pretty much settled in. I only need a few more things for my place (bookshelves, table for the kitchen&#8230;), then it&#8217;ll really feel like home. What comes after that?<\/p>\n<p><b>I&#8217;m thinking of a motorcycle&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can stay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}