{"id":1705,"date":"2011-02-14T12:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-02-14\/1705"},"modified":"2011-02-14T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T09:14:52","slug":"without-fate-monument-dumping-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-02-14\/1705","title":{"rendered":"Without Fate: Dumping Ground of Monumental Proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an 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
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 220 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nDispassionate Observer<\/span>\ndeep in the mountains of Kansai, Japan\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 720 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nSome Relatively New<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 800 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nSome Relatively Old<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nOlder Still<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 360 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nVery Old<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 560 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nI'd Love That Dude For My Garden<\/span>\n( if I had a garden, that is )\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 1100 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nOops<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nGold Bug?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 1100 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nDetail<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nLayers<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>1000 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nCramped Quarters<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 320 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nVariety of Recent Dates<\/span>\nthird from the left is dated March 26th, 1943\nthe one in the middle dates from July 1987\nothers seem to be in between\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 280 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nBroken and Scattered<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/8, ISO 1800 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nJumbled<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 @ 24 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/14, ISO 1800 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nWithout Fate<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

If you want visible presence at a shrine<\/span> or temple, you make a donation<\/span>\nand your name is put to something, such as the orange gates of various sizes\nat the Fushimi Inari Shrine<\/a>, or affixed under a small<\/span> statuette as at the\nSanzen-in Temple<\/a>, or engraved into a stone<\/span> (such as a gravestone,<\/span> or\nsome kind of offering seen a bazillion<\/span> times in passing on my blog, such as\nhere<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Things such\nas the wooden gates eventually rot<\/a>, but stone\nlasts a bit<\/span> longer, so if you or your ancestors stop paying the annual\nmaintenance, your rock may get shipped off to a muenbotoke<\/i><\/a> holding ground\n— “Buddha without fate<\/strike> connection” (thanks, Zak, for the fixed translation<\/a><\/i>) — to await the elements (or, perhaps, payment of fees).<\/p>\n\n

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If you want visible presence at a shrine or temple, you make a donation and your name is put to something, such as the orange gates of various sizes at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, or affixed under a small statuette as at the Sanzen-in Temple, or engraved into a stone (such as a gravestone, or some kind of offering seen a bazillion times in passing on my blog, such as here and here and here).<\/p>

Things such as the wooden gates eventually rot, but stone lasts a bit longer, so if you or your ancestors stop paying the annual maintenance, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}