{"id":5684,"date":"2009-09-30T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T05:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2009-09-30T14:46:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T05:46:34","slug":"matz-becomes-an-honorary-citizen-of-matsue-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/matz-becomes-an-honorary-citizen-of-matsue-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Matz becomes an honorary citizen of Matsue-city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"matz(cc-by-nc)JimLindley\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/matzcc-by-ncJimLindley.jpg\" alt=\"matz(cc-by-nc)JimLindley\" \/><br \/>\n(Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/strangecontext\/1850262566\/\">Jim Lindley<\/a> (cc-by-nc))<br \/>\nRuby&#8217;s creator <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yukihiro_Matsumoto\">Yukihiro &#8216;Matz&#8217; Matsumoto<\/a> is going to become an honorary citizen of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matsue,_Shimane\">Matsue city<\/a> where he lives.<br \/>\nThe city will award three people this time but other two are awarded posthumously. Matz, a 44 years-old geek, is the youngest recipient of the award.<br \/>\nMatsue city considers Ruby and Matz as very important &#8220;assets&#8221; of the city. They held a conference called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubyworld-conf.org\/en\/\">Ruby World Conference 2009<\/a>&#8216; in September to strengthen their presence in Ruby community.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/e-japan\/shimane\/news\/20090929-OYT8T01270.htm\">Yomiuri Shimbun<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Jim Lindley (cc-by-nc)) Ruby&#8217;s creator Yukihiro &#8216;Matz&#8217; Matsumoto is going to become an honorary citizen of Matsue city where he lives. The city will award three people this time but other two are awarded posthumously. Matz, a 44 years-old geek, is the youngest recipient of the award. Matsue city considers Ruby and Matz&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/matz-becomes-an-honorary-citizen-of-matsue-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matz becomes an honorary citizen of Matsue-city<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[2248,3163],"class_list":["post-5684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-person","tag-matz","tag-ruby","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}