{"id":879,"date":"2010-12-12T23:50:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2010-12-13T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T15:14:00","slug":"its-the-little-things-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/its-the-little-things-5\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Little Things #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/vyY_kWDGOh4fqixDSMO0WA?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/TQTf0dLeCaI\/AAAAAAAAEso\/LXzZvgxKN60\/s288\/Image028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/ePinEJfs86Yo46ToBfm7XQ?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/TQTf1ax0Q0I\/AAAAAAAAEss\/ImwDXGRZ-iU\/s288\/Image029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Japan is obsessed with individualized packaging. Case in point: I bought this bag of cookies without reading it too carefully expecting&#8230; I don&#8217;t know, a bag full of cookies, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/Dqj4RFTv1S68xXpolyOnDw?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/TQTf10NSmTI\/AAAAAAAAEsw\/NGcs2Wwa9D4\/s288\/Image031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>When I opened it though, I found exactly FIVE cookies, each individually wrapped in its own little clear plastic bag. It&#8217;s the same story with most foods here though, so I can&#8217;t be too surprised.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen party bags of snacks, segmented into handful-size plastic bags of snack mix. I&#8217;ve even (coincidentally) bought packages of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senbei\" target=\"_blank\">sembei<\/a>, those delicious Japanese rice crackers, with each cracker individually wrapped. And don&#8217;t get me started on bakeries that put each item on a piece of plastic, then wrap that whole thing in a small plastic bag, then put that bag in a large plastic shopping bag for you.<\/p>\n<p>For a country that prides itself on being ecologically minded, there sure is a lot of excessive packaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is obsessed with individualized packaging. Case in point: I bought this bag of cookies without reading it too carefully expecting&#8230; I don&#8217;t know, a bag full of cookies, right? When I opened it though, I found exactly FIVE cookies, each individually wrapped in its own little clear plastic bag. It&#8217;s the same story with [&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],"tags":[150,252],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-its-the-little-things","tag-packaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}