{"id":523,"date":"2009-08-31T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2009-09-01T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T06:21:23","slug":"its-the-little-things-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/its-the-little-things-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Little Things #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/kcgNqfaVyC1w5M_hOYhfOQ?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/Spy1g9efB-I\/AAAAAAAADtg\/UQCkjusLxXo\/s400\/DSCN3459.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Pictured on the left is a wall plate of five Japanese light switches. They&#8217;re always mounted to switch horizontally (as opposed to vertically in the US). The little oval mark is the &#8220;on&#8221; position, which always seems to be on the right. The bottom two switches are for vent fans (I took this picture in a commercial kitchen), which when switched on, are backlit by a red light.<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting is that most switches are outside of the room they&#8217;re switching, so you have to turn the light on before you enter a room, or you&#8217;ll have to go back out if you forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured on the left is a wall plate of five Japanese light switches. They&#8217;re always mounted to switch horizontally (as opposed to vertically in the US). The little oval mark is the &#8220;on&#8221; position, which always seems to be on the right. The bottom two switches are for vent fans (I took this picture in [&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":[150,171],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-japan","tag-its-the-little-things","tag-light-switches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}