{"id":1683,"date":"2008-06-11T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2008-06-11T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T09:04:09","slug":"fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/11\/fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<i>Shinjuku&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyoq.com\/weekly_updates\/tqoole\/don.html\">Don Quixote<\/a> store, Sunday evening, 2:43am.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>D.<\/b> [handing in massive set of fireworks]:<\/i> We&#8217;ll take these.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Cashier<\/b> [in a bored monotonous tone]:<\/i> Please remember that by Tokyo law you are not allowed to fire these in the middle of residential urban areas. Also please do not use late at night where it might disturb the peace.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>D. &#038; H.<\/b> [as one person]:<\/i> OF COURSE!<\/p>\n<p><i><b>D.<\/b> [to H.]:<\/i> Oh&#8230; do we have any lighter?<\/p>\n<p><i><b>H.<\/b>:<\/i> I don&#8217;t, do you?<\/p>\n<p><i><b>D.<\/b> [to cashier]:<\/i> Do you sell lighters by any chance?<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Cashier<\/b>:<\/i> Over there.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>D.<\/b> [grabbing one]:<\/i> Great. We&#8217;ll also take this. Kthanx.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjuku&#8217;s Don Quixote store, Sunday evening, 2:43am. D. [handing in massive set of fireworks]: We&#8217;ll take these. Cashier [in a bored monotonous tone]: Please remember that by Tokyo law you are not allowed to fire these in the middle of residential urban areas. Also please do not use late at night where it might disturb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}