{"id":2013,"date":"2007-01-16T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/flier_on_subway_earn_easy_money_by_having_japanese_people_over_for_dinner.html"},"modified":"2007-01-16T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:13:32","slug":"flier_on_subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/flier_on_subway.html","title":{"rendered":"Flier On Subway: Earn Easy Money By Having Japanese People Over For Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/articles\/070122ta_talk_collins\">Sofia Coppola wasn&#8217;t lying about Japanese people being weird<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Japanese people don&#8217;t like to go online and plan their own trips,&#8221; Carol Elk said one recent morning at the offices of the Japanese Travel Bureau, on Seventh Avenue. Having worked for two years as a visit co\u00c3\u00b6rdinator for J.T.B., Elk is familiar with the preferences, and potential disappointments, of the Nikkei-in-New York.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>She went on to detail some imperatives: hotel rooms must have bathtubs and, even for married couples, separate beds; the highest-ranking executive in a business group stays on a higher floor than his subordinates; most museums are &#8220;kind of &#8216;eh,'&#8221; but MOMA is popular because it was designed by a Japanese architect; Yankees tickets should be in left field, for optimal viewing of Matsui. Slightly less understandable was a request that Elk says she gets frequently: to have dinner at home with a regular American family. &#8220;I tell people, &#8216;We&#8217;ll pay you, we&#8217;ll have it catered, we&#8217;ll send someone to clean up.&#8217; But nobody will do it in New York.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker reports that Sofia Coppola wasn&#8217;t lying about Japanese people being weird: &#8220;Japanese people don&#8217;t like to go online and plan their own trips,&#8221; Carol Elk said one recent morning at the offices of the Japanese Travel Bureau, on Seventh Avenue. Having worked for two years as a visit co\u00c3\u00b6rdinator for J.T.B., Elk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}