{"id":444,"date":"2009-05-15T12:53:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T03:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2009-05-15T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T03:53:39","slug":"its-the-little-things-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/its-the-little-things-1\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Little Things #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting a new series of posts on my blog today. It&#8217;s basically just a quick blurb about something unexpectedly different between America and Japan. So, without further ado, here&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s the Little Things,&#8221; part the first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/0N6OQwY08wmwNftMA8j-2g?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/SgzjkDDR60I\/AAAAAAAAC-I\/5EKN9wGLK3w\/s288\/LockRotation.jpg\" alt=\"Pheer my mad Photoshop skillz\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> 99% of the time (anecdotally, of course) locks in Japan lock with what I&#8217;d call &#8220;underhand&#8221; rotation, meaning that the lower part of the lock matches the movement of the bolt- as opposed to American locks, where the movement of the bolt typically mirrors the movement of the upper part of the lock.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured is my apartment door, currently locked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting a new series of posts on my blog today. It&#8217;s basically just a quick blurb about something unexpectedly different between America and Japan. So, without further ado, here&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s the Little Things,&#8221; part the first. 99% of the time (anecdotally, of course) locks in Japan lock with what I&#8217;d call &#8220;underhand&#8221; rotation, meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[150,151],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-japan","tag-its-the-little-things","tag-lock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}