{"id":1256,"date":"2009-07-15T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-07-15\/1256"},"modified":"2009-07-15T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:18:22","slug":"ishigaki-day-3-floral-quiz-on-taketomi-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-07-15\/1256","title":{"rendered":"Ishigaki Day 3: Floral Quiz on Taketomi Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1256'>\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=\"016803\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_016803.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_016803_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Pretty Village Street on tiny Taketomi Island, near Ishigaki Island, in the far south of Japan ( after I got rid of most of the utility wires in post ) -- Taketomi Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i016803\"\ntitle=\"Pretty Village Street on tiny Taketomi Island, near Ishigaki Island, in the far south of Japan ( after I got rid of most of the utility wires in post ) -- Taketomi Island, Okinawa Prefecture, 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 @ 35 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>1000 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_016803.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_016803.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Pretty Village Street<\/span>\n<br\/>on tiny Taketomi Island, near Ishigaki Island, in the far south of Japan\n<br\/><span class='subtle'>( after <span class='nobr'>I got<\/span> rid of most of the utility wires in post )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I don't think I'll require <i>nine<\/i> separate posts to cover the third\nday of <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-05-07\/1204\" class='quiet'>our\nrecent trip to Japan's Ishigaki Island<\/a> in the East China Sea, but we'll see.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'll start out Day Three with <span class='nobr'>a little<\/span> quiz....<\/p>\n\n<p>A few miles off the south-west coast of Ishigaki Island is the tiny <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taketomi\" class='quiet'>Taketomi\nIsland<\/a>, known for its quaint culturally-unique village. Most lanes in\nthe village are lined by three things: coral walls, pretty flowers,\nand ugly utility poles.<\/p>\n\n<p>Construction is under way to bury all the wires and get rid of the\npoles, so I've taken the liberty of doing so retroactively to the photo\nabove, taken of us by <span class='nobr'>a kind<\/span> stranger.<\/p>\n\n<p>The walls of stacked coral blocks are similar to <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2008-02-04\/714\" class='quiet'>those on\nfar away Kakeroma-jima<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><b>Which brings us to today's quiz:<\/b> what color are the flowers that line the lane in the photo above?<\/p>\n\n<p>(A link to the answer is posted among the comments below)<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-07-18\/1259\" class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don't think I'll require nine separate posts to cover the third day of our recent trip to Japan's Ishigaki Island in the East China Sea, but we'll see.<\/p> <p>I'll start out Day Three with a little quiz....<\/p> <p>A few miles off the south-west coast of Ishigaki Island is the tiny Taketomi Island, known for its quaint culturally-unique village. Most lanes in the village are lined by three things: coral walls, pretty flowers, and ugly utility poles.<\/p> <p>Construction is under way to bury all the wires and get rid of the poles, so I've taken the liberty of doing so [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"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=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}