{"id":1794,"date":"2011-06-10T00:23:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-06-10\/1794"},"modified":"2011-06-10T00:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:23:38","slug":"what-it-looks-like-when-tiered-rice-paddies-go-to-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-06-10\/1794","title":{"rendered":"What It Looks Like When Tiered Rice Paddies Go to Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1794'>\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=\"083825\" href='\/i\/JF7_083825.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_083825_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Tiered Rice Paddies gone to seed -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i083825\"\nphotostream=\"japan\"\ntitle=\"Tiered Rice Paddies gone to seed -- Otsu, Shiga, Japan -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>6400 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 250 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_083825.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_083825.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Tiered Rice Paddies<\/span>\n<br\/>gone to seed\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I went on an outing today again with Shimada-san and Paul Barr, to the\ndeep rural mountains of Uji City, southeast of Kyoto. <span class='nobr'>We went a<\/span> week ago\nand had <span class='nobr'>a wonderful<\/span> time, though I've barely had <span class='nobr'>a chance<\/span> to look over that\nday's photos. (From that day I've posted only <a\nhref='\/blog\/2011-06-03\/1788'><span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> flowers<\/a>, some <a\nhref='\/blog\/2011-06-07\/1792'>small-village farming\nscenes<\/a>, and <span class='nobr'>a bunch<\/span> of shots from <a\nhref='\/blog\/2011-06-07\/1793'><span class='nobr'>a small<\/span> local shrine<\/a>.)\nToday we went on some different roads and discovered even more remote, more\npleasant areas. <span class='nobr'>It was wonderful<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The photo above, of a set of tiered rice paddies that had been disused\nlong enough for <span class='nobr'>a tree<\/span> to grow in them, came after I'd taken <span class='nobr'>a short<\/span> path\nfrom the road through <span class='nobr'>a dense<\/span> bamboo forest. <span class='nobr'>It's not much<\/span> to look at in\nthe small version, but has somewhat of a &#8220;presence&#8221; when it fills the\nscreen, <span class='nobr'>I think.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2011-06-16\/1797' class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went on an outing today again with Shimada-san and Paul Barr, to the deep rural mountains of Uji City, southeast of Kyoto. We went a week ago and had a wonderful time, though I've barely had a chance to look over that day's photos. (From that day I've posted only a few flowers, some small-village farming scenes, and a bunch of shots from a small local shrine.) Today we went on some different roads and discovered even more remote, more pleasant areas. It was wonderful.<\/p> <p>The photo above, of a set of tiered rice paddies that had been disused [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"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=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}