{"id":13390,"date":"1999-04-15T16:05:24","date_gmt":"1999-04-15T05:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=13390"},"modified":"1999-04-15T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"1999-04-15T05:05:24","slug":"arriving-in-naha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=13390","title":{"rendered":"Arriving in Naha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I arrived in Naha by overnight boat from Keelung. As I came through immigration at the port there were about 5 men, boys really, dressed in blue uniforms. One asked me where I had been. I told him Taiwan. He then asked me where in Taiwan. I listed of the list of places I had been &#8211; Tai Pei, Hua Lien, Tai Jung, Tau Dung, Gau Shung&#8230; When I did so one of the others heard me say Tainan and thought I had said Thailand. He took me and led me to a separate room and asked me to sit on a small old-style stackable chair. While the others went through my bag. They were quite excited and I think they thought they had found a drug smuggler. Luckily the leader of the group, who was older, maybe 25 years old, took my passport and, flipping through the pages, saw that I had not been to Thailand. He asked me to again say where I had been and realised what had happened. They apologized and let me pass through. I thought that of I had been to Thailand I might have been subject to a body cavity search. I was pleased that the one who led them was on the ball and had a sensible, non-puppy like, approach to the whole thing. I guess that they have this\u00a0belief\u00a0that if you have been to Thailand you must be a drug smuggler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in Naha by overnight boat from Keelung. As I came through immigration at the port there were about[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1153,1452,1803,1885,2458,2596,3372,3690],"class_list":["post-13390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-drugs","tag-freighter","tag-immigration","tag-japan","tag-naha","tag-okinawa","tag-smuggler","tag-thaliand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}