{"id":920,"date":"2005-05-09T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T07:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/09\/the-japanese-touch\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T11:08:08","slug":"the-japanese-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/09\/the-japanese-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"the Japanese Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"keitai-pics\">\n<div class=\"keitai-pic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/keitai\/pix\/2005-05-09-3-19-3-0.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/keitai\/pix\/thumbnails\/2005-05-09-3-19-3-0.jpeg\" alt=\"050509_1542~03.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"keitai-text\">Tokyo Tower: Perhaps the most prominent example of modern &#8220;Japanese Touch&#8221;&#8230; that incredible instinct to improve on old concepts and go <em>just<\/em> one step too far&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"keitai-text\">E.g.: take the Eiffel Tower, a concept with a somewhat proven viability&#8230; add 13 meters and drop it in the middle of Tokyo, so far so good&#8230; <em>Then<\/em> paint it a pattern of red and white stripes&#8230; You got the Japanese Touch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"keitai-text\">I mean, I can so totally picture the Japanese construction engineer uncovering, at the time, the plan for the new and improved <s>Eiffel<\/s> Tokyo Tower: &#8220;And now, you see, ladies and gentleman, we have increased its visibility by <strong>3200%<\/strong>&#8230; by turning it into a <strong>giant lollipop<\/strong>!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Tower: Perhaps the most prominent example of modern &#8220;Japanese Touch&#8221;&#8230; that incredible instinct to improve on old concepts and go just one step too far&#8230; E.g.: take the Eiffel Tower, a concept with a somewhat proven viability&#8230; add 13 meters and drop it in the middle of Tokyo, so far so good&#8230; Then paint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keitai-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}