{"id":757,"date":"2013-02-19T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=757"},"modified":"2013-02-19T13:19:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:19:17","slug":"hawaii-and-the-us-japan-leadership-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii (and the US-Japan Leadership Program)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I highly recommend the concept of being in Hawaii in February.\u00a0 (Yes, that absolutely was an exercise in gloating.)\u00a0 I was there for an executive committee meeting of the US-Japan Leadership Program, and Jim and I stayed a few extra days afterwards to enjoy paradise (aka Hawaii).\u00a0 We stayed in Honolulu, as we think the best restaurants and museums on the islands are there.\u00a0 (Restaurant reviews to follow.)<\/p>\n

Our children were offered the option of missing a week of school to join us, but our daughter decided she\u2019d be missing too much school that way and opted not to go.\u00a0 I am not certain whether to be pleased at the responsibility she demonstrated or appalled at the fact that she turned down a trip to Hawaii.\u00a0 I\u2019m still pondering that one.\u00a0 Our son, who would have happily missed a week of school to go to Hawaii, is still rather miffed that he couldn\u2019t go, thanks to his older sister.<\/p>\n

The USJLP executive committee meeting went quite well, and I think we have a fabulous group of new delegates for the program.\u00a0 It should be a lively group in Japan this summer when they meet up.\u00a0 It was also really wonderful to see everyone on the executive committee again.\u00a0 They are a great group of people (and have an incredible capacity for beer and sake).<\/p>\n

But the really lovely thing about Hawaii is its incredible natural beauty.\u00a0 (Jim would say that the natural beauty of the Hawaii residents isn\u2019t bad either.)\u00a0 We hiked Diamondhead in the early morning so that we could see the sunrise up there.\u00a0 And, of course, there are miles of beautiful beaches and ocean.<\/p>\n

This is the view from Diamondhead:<\/p>\n

\"Diamondhead<\/a>
Diamondhead at sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And this is the view from our (upgraded) hotel room:<\/p>\n

\"view<\/a>
view from the Halekulani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A big thank you to my parents, who were willing to fly out from southern California (where it\u2019s sunny and warm) to watch the kids while we were gone (where it was neither sunny nor warm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I highly recommend the concept of being in Hawaii in February.\u00a0 (Yes, that absolutely was an exercise in gloating.)\u00a0 I was there for an executive committee meeting of the US-Japan Leadership Program, and Jim and I stayed a few extra days afterwards to enjoy paradise (aka Hawaii).\u00a0 We stayed in Honolulu, as we think the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,26,7],"tags":[327,332,18,19],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-honolulu","category-non-profit","tag-family","tag-honolulu","tag-us-japan-leadership-program","tag-usjlp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-cd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}