{"id":1185,"date":"2009-04-12T22:50:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-04-12\/1185"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T02:20:27","slug":"little-tamaki-chan-in-a-field-of-violets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-04-12\/1185","title":{"rendered":"Little Tamaki-chan in a Field of Violets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1185'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"015654\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_015654.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_015654_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"22-month-old Zoe Tamaki Braverman She's Got the &amp;#8220;Pouty-Cute&amp;#8221; Thing Down Pat -- Ojigaoka Park -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i015654\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\ntitle=\"22-month-old Zoe Tamaki Braverman She's Got the &amp;#8220;Pouty-Cute&amp;#8221; Thing Down Pat -- Ojigaoka Park -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 66 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_015654.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_015654.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/>22-month-old Zoe Tamaki Braverman\n<br\/><span class='caption'>She's Got the &#8220;Pouty-Cute&#8221; Thing Down Pat<\/span>\n<div class='dbg' id='x500727'\nonmouseover='document.getElementById(\"x500727\").style.color=\"red\"; this.style.borderColor=\"red\"'\nonmouseout= 'document.getElementById(\"x500727\").style.color=\"inherit\"; this.style.borderColor=\"\"'><b>Portrait-Mode Vertical Desktop-Background Versions<\/b>\n<br\/>\n<span style='margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; opacity:.6; filter:alpha(opacity=60);'>\n<span style='white-space:nowrap'><small><a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_015654_1050x1680.jpg\" title=\"1050 x 1680 desktop background image\">1050<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>1680<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_015654_1200x1920.jpg\" title=\"1200 x 1920 desktop background image\">1200<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>1920<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_015654_1600x2560.jpg\" title=\"1600 x 2560 desktop background image\">1600<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>2560<\/a><\/small>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After our visit yesterday to <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-04-12\/1184\" class='quiet'>Kyoto's Konzou\nTemple<\/a>, Anthony and <span class='nobr'>I headed<\/span> all the way across Kyoto, around some\nsmall mountains, and into Otsu City to play in the park with his friend Gen.\nThey have <span class='nobr'>a great<\/span> park across from their place\nthat we've\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-03-22\/772\">visited<\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-03-18\/767#048657\">many<\/a>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-06-12\/835\">times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Gen's little sister, Tamaki-chan, has <span class='nobr'>a very<\/span> important quality that\nevery child should have: <b>she likes me<\/b>. Even though her Daddy had to\nwake her up from <span class='nobr'>a long<\/span> nap and she was <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> pouty, her puzzling like of\nme allowed her to put up with me and my camera.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"015628\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_015628.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_015628_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Ojigaoka Park -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i015628\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\ntitle=\"Ojigaoka Park -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_015628.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_015628.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>She reminds me of my grandma (my mom's mom) in that she looks good in\nany kind of hat\/headgear you might put on her, just the opposite of me.<\/p>\n\n<p>She's normally full of smiles around me, but this time she was <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span>\ngroggy having overslept her nap. (Her daddy <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.kotodama.net\/blog\/\" class='quiet'>Zak<\/a> tells me that's\nshe's recently learned &#8220;<b>NO!<\/b>&#8221;, but she's always an angel with\nme.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Even groggy, a trip down the slide with her dad brings <span class='nobr'>a smile.<\/span>..<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a name=\"015639\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_015639.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_015639_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Ojigaoka Park -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i015639\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\ntitle=\"Ojigaoka Park -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>125 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 400 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_015639.jpg\">map &amp; 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They have a great park across from their place that we've visited many times.<\/p> <p>Gen's little sister, Tamaki-chan, has a very important quality that every child should have: <b>she likes me<\/b>. Even though her Daddy had to wake her up from a long nap and she was a bit pouty, her puzzling like of me allowed her to put up with me and my camera.<\/p> <p>She [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,28,6,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}