{"id":5036,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-narita-divorce\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:07","slug":"the-narita-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-narita-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Narita Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isao Yamamoto, discusses a phenomenon in Japan called the \u201cNarita divorce.\u201d  I&#8217;ll paraphrase the story for you:<\/p>\n<p>The name \u201cNarita\u201d comes from the airport outside of Tokyo.  Apparently, Narita divorces occur in two instances.  The first is shortly after older couples see their children off for their honeymoon at the Narita airport.  And the second is when some younger couples return to Narita from their honeymoon!<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the Narita divorce story is that when a shared vision is lost &#8212; be it holding together the marriage \u201cfor the kids,\u201d or whatever &#8212; or if it fails to change to reflect some new realities &#8212; a long-standing partnership can fail.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Joseph E. Cappy, Vice President International Operations, Chrysler Corporation.  Quoted in The Business Speaker&#8217;s Almanac, Edited by Jack Griffin and Alice Marks (Prentice Hall, 1994).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isao Yamamoto, discusses a phenomenon in Japan called the \u201cNarita divorce.\u201d I&#8217;ll paraphrase the story for you: The name \u201cNarita\u201d comes from the airport outside of Tokyo. Apparently, Narita divorces occur in two instances. The first is shortly after older couples see their children off for their honeymoon at the Narita airport. And the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,3754,4459],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}