{"id":938,"date":"2010-12-18T19:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T10:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2010-12-18T19:25:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T10:25:56","slug":"what-were-you-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/18\/what-were-you-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"What Were You Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/AP_nf6Pk7ip5HvpZhKQvSQ?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_tPVAWD6nVDQ\/TQx7aPniqJI\/AAAAAAAAEvY\/GmPrrFM_X9U\/s400\/SBSH0122.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t even know what to say to this, really. Other than intentionally choosing a name that would drive away English-speaking customers, the only possible explanation for this shoe&#8217;s phenomenally bad name is that no one checked what the name actually meant in English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you find yourself questioning how a nationwide chain of shoe stores like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc-mart.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Mart<\/a> might do something like that, feel free to browse through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrish.com\" target=\"_blank\">Engrish.com<\/a> a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t even know what to say to this, really. Other than intentionally choosing a name that would drive away English-speaking customers, the only possible explanation for this shoe&#8217;s phenomenally bad name is that no one checked what the name actually meant in English. If you find yourself questioning how a nationwide chain of shoe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,264],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-engrish","tag-shoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}