{"id":920,"date":"2010-12-16T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T14:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2010-12-17T02:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T17:28:32","slug":"thing-of-the-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/16\/thing-of-the-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Thing of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/c-yhiz0HfWK0AQ5J06Sf4A?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/TQpHYJ-9GWI\/AAAAAAAAEuQ\/kmOeGEFgt2M\/s288\/SBSH0054.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/dzrjwiTkXfn6XG4u0RVPzg?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/TQpHXaWZhxI\/AAAAAAAAEug\/lNl3anWNazg\/s288\/SBSH0055.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>I found this live goldfish &#8220;UFO Catcher&#8221; (&#8220;Crane game&#8221; \/ &#8220;Claw catcher&#8221; whatever you want to call it) in an arcade here in Matsuyama.<\/p>\n<p>You catch the fish using slotted plastic scoops attached to what looks like a normal claw. If you get one, the fish drops into a lower collection pool where an attendant scoops it up and puts it in a plastic bag for you to take home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UFO Catcher&#8221;s (as they&#8217;re universally known here) are supremely popular, second only to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purikura#Purikura\" target=\"_blank\">purikura<\/a> photo booths in number. In fact, there are businesses that simply contain large numbers of these machines, and seem to be doing fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this live goldfish &#8220;UFO Catcher&#8221; (&#8220;Crane game&#8221; \/ &#8220;Claw catcher&#8221; whatever you want to call it) in an arcade here in Matsuyama. You catch the fish using slotted plastic scoops attached to what looks like a normal claw. If you get one, the fish drops into a lower collection pool where an attendant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[260,259],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thing-of-the-day","tag-goldfish","tag-ufo-catcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}