{"id":2507,"date":"2012-03-10T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2012-03-10T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T13:29:20","slug":"japan-and-clancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"Japan and Clancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> month or so,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2508\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2508\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TomClancy_RainbowSix1-95x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TomClancy_RainbowSix\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2508\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TomClancy_RainbowSix1-95x150.jpg 95w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TomClancy_RainbowSix1-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TomClancy_RainbowSix1.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a> I decide to start reading all the books in Clancy&#8217;s &#8220;Ryan-verse&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Ryan_(Tom_Clancy_character)\">Wikipedia<\/a>). In short, the serie&#8217;s protagonist, Jack Ryan, is literally put in so many life dangering situations that at times made my toes curl. My theory on Clancy&#8217;s books is, that over time, the story line gets more and more preposterous.\n<\/p>\n<p>Take for example, &#8216;Debt of Honor&#8217;: in this book Jack (now National Security Advisor) unravels a Japanese plot to take down the US financial world and on top of that, an attack on American military assets. The plot reeks of the typical 80s anti-Japanese sentiments (remember the days the Japanese took over all those American companies?) but if you think of it: Since WW2, the Japanese army and Navy was and has always been severely limited in power. Reading this book in the 21st century reminds me of the rant I wrote back in 2007 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1665\">rant ahead<\/a>) about Japan, particularly about these anti-Japanese sentiments.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I&#8217;m not pro-Japan. In fact, I love yelling at Japanese (that is, when I happen to encounter them). It&#8217;s just that I believe even at that time, Japan&#8217;s economic power was fairly overrated and (as we now know) temporarily. You know, cheap production thru robots and that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so, I decide to start reading all the books in Clancy&#8217;s &#8220;Ryan-verse&#8221; (Wikipedia). In short, the serie&#8217;s protagonist, Jack Ryan, is literally put in so many life dangering situations that at times made my toes curl. My &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}