{"id":21,"date":"2003-06-01T22:52:05","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/01\/snoopy-town\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T12:24:34","slug":"snoopy-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/01\/snoopy-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoopy Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- picture_glue_start --><\/p>\n<p \/><a class=\"pic_link\" href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post21\/CIMG0009.JPG\" target=\"zoom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo_justified\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/pix\/post21\/thumbnails\/CIMG0009.JPG\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><!-- picture_glue_stop -->Here is a little something taken two days ago just before leaving Tokyo (more on Paris, where I am now, later)&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen we were looking for a place to eat around Harajuku with some friends, my fucked-up mind kept elaborating some interesting plots for a happening\/practical joke, all involving this typical cutish japanese store, and some variation on asking for a Beagle Burger at the counter or something like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>yea, I know, this is only mildly funny&#8230; but still, it&#8217;d be worth trying someday.<\/p>\n<p> It ranks somewhere along my idea for a movie documenting the production process of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otsuka.co.jp\/product\/pocarisweat\/index.html\">Pocari Sweat<\/a> (the unexplained name for a popular japanese energy drink), relying heavily on an picturesque description of the mythical &#8220;pocari&#8221;, a small furry animal forced to run in hamster-style wheels, in order to produce high quality body transpiration collected and bottled to be sold to every hip tokyoite as the eponymous drink&#8230; and this is only the short version, of course&#8230; One can imagine elaborate theories as to what would be done with all the potential energy you could draw from the wheels&#8217; rotation&#8230; Hell: for all I know, this factory might be located under Shibuya and help power the insane amount of neons and giant LCD covering the area&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>ahem&#8230; anyway&#8230; more on paris later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little something taken two days ago just before leaving Tokyo (more on Paris, where I am now, later)&#8230;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}