{"id":34,"date":"2007-06-19T21:46:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/06\/19\/the-chopsticks-are-no-worse-than-a-tattoo\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T03:29:55","slug":"the-chopsticks-are-no-worse-than-a-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/the-chopsticks-are-no-worse-than-a-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The chopsticks are no worse than a tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend\u00c2\u00a0quickly threw together a temporary header for the blog (displacing boats, tomatoes and puppies that came with WordPress templates), asking &#8220;is it obvious that i had to mirror the chopsticks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Um, yes. If you look closely, you&#8217;ll see the Chinese characters on the chopsticks are <em>backwards. <\/em>But it doesn&#8217;t matter since most of the people who read this blog don&#8217;t read Chinese &#8212; though this has not stopped\u00c2\u00a0others from getting embarrassing\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/02\/fashion\/sundaystyles\/02tattoos.html?pagewanted=2&amp;ei=5070&amp;en=9e7ff2c4ae356262&amp;ex=1182484800\" title=\"Cool Tat, Too Bad It's Gibberish \">tattoos <\/a>of Chinese characters on assorted their body parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend\u00c2\u00a0quickly threw together a temporary header for the blog (displacing boats, tomatoes and puppies that came with WordPress templates), asking &#8220;is it obvious that i had to mirror the chopsticks?&#8221; Um, yes. If you look closely, you&#8217;ll see the Chinese characters on the chopsticks are backwards. But it doesn&#8217;t matter since most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-musings","category-chinese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}