\u300cChance of rain 1\u300d<\/p>\n
“Unbelievable! You’re just…!<\/em>” That’s what the woman says, looking at me as I’m standing there in the entranceway. It feels like we’re going to have a ruptured conversation there, like being unable to convey your thoughts to a foreign friend. I could hear a voice saying “just give up<\/em>.” But, it can’t be helped. Communicating my thoughts to her is definitely necessary.<\/p>\n Now now, calm down. I don’t mean to be making excuses here, but won’t you listen to what I have to say? It won’t take long. Look, you know the term “chance of rain<\/em>“? You should. That thing in the weather news where they say what the percentual chance of it raining is. If it’s 50%, that basically means the probability is\u00a01\/2, so you go “Alright! I’m not bringing an umbrella today!<\/em>“. But, then it’ll end up raining. “You can’t count on the weather forecast!<\/em>” you’ll say, getting a little gloomy. However, everyone’s getting it all wrong. That’s a huge mistake, almost a lethal one.<\/p>\n I feel like her facial expression’s softened a little. While standing in the entranceway, I continue talking to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u300cChance of rain 1\u300d “Unbelievable! You’re just…!” That’s what the woman says, looking at me as I’m standing there in the entranceway. It feels like we’re going to have a ruptured conversation there, like being unable to convey your thoughts to a foreign friend. I could hear a voice saying “just give up.” But, it […]<\/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":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-translations","tag-takuro-sugawara"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muh2-1n8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7315,"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions\/7315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kumomi.org\/9mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}