{"id":7030,"date":"2014-02-27T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2014-02-28T00:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:25:59","slug":"repairing-shoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/27\/repairing-shoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing shoji&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7030 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4735.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4735.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Before repair: looks like it was attacked by a wild beast.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7031\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7031'>\n\t\t\t\tBefore repair: looks like it was attacked by a wild beast.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4736.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4736.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cat couldn&#039;t resist the temptation of a last few scratches\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7032\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7032'>\n\t\t\t\tCat couldn&#8217;t resist the temptation of a last few scratches\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4738.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4738.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Bit of water...\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7033\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7033'>\n\t\t\t\tBit of water&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4739.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4739.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"... and it comes right off!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7034\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7034'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8230; and it comes right off!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4737.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4737.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Cats: not helping\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7035\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7035'>\n\t\t\t\tCats: not helping\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4740.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_4740.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Final result!\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7036\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7036'>\n\t\t\t\tFinal result!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not that the cats <em>specifically<\/em> target the shoji&#8230; It&#8217;s just that said shoji happen to be just behind their favourite indoor climbing equipment (aka &#8220;curtains&#8221;). Not that these shoji were all that intact to begin with (couple small tears and a few individually patched cells, not to mention 30+ year-old paper).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now that the household&#8217;s feline population has been taught to (mostly) stay away from curtains, I felt it might be time to get rid of the &#8220;just-survived-a-tiger-encounter&#8221; look of the bedroom sliding screens, while partaking in the time-honoured Japanese tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7gKHhY07ncs\">replacing shoji paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, I opted for the supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/gekitai.kwn.ne.jp\/6505\/\">cat-proof<\/a> plastified version, which comes with the added bonus that it is heat-reactive and can be applied with a press iron, without separate glue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not that the cats specifically target the shoji&#8230; It&#8217;s just that said shoji happen to be just behind their favourite indoor climbing equipment (aka &#8220;curtains&#8221;). Not that these shoji were all that intact to begin with (couple small tears and a few individually patched cells, not to mention 30+ year-old paper). Anyway, now that [&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":[57,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-life","category-japan","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","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=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}