{"id":279,"date":"2003-12-08T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/new_look_for_the_new_year\/"},"modified":"2003-12-08T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T18:18:53","slug":"new_look_for_the_new_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/new_look_for_the_new_year\/","title":{"rendered":"New Look for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet one more item on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/japan\/story\/0,7369,1102249,00.html\">holiday &#8220;to-do&#8221; list<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Japan&#8217;s cosmetic surgeons are preparing for a holiday rush as patients seek temporary nips and tucks to greet the new year.<br \/>\nThe country&#8217;s largest clinics say they expect a surge in patients seeking minor procedures.<br \/>\n&#8220;We get a lot of patients toward the end of the year because people want to get rid of the things they don&#8217;t like about their faces and feel refreshed before moving on to a new year,&#8221; said Shin Saito, a spokesman for the nationwide chain Otsuka Academy of Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery. The benefits last for about six months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll pass on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/new_look_for_the_new_year\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to New Look for the New Year\"><p>Yet one more item on the holiday &#8220;to-do&#8221; list: Japan&#8217;s cosmetic surgeons are preparing for a holiday rush as patients seek temporary nips and tucks to greet the new year. The country&#8217;s largest clinics say they expect a surge in patients seeking minor procedures. &#8220;We get a lot of patients toward the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}