{"id":2883,"date":"2019-03-24T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T02:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2019-03-24\/2883"},"modified":"2019-03-24T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T02:15:39","slug":"final-construction-japanese-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2019-03-24\/2883","title":{"rendered":"Final Construction, Japanese Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i6936\" href='\/i\/JFi7p_1902_6936.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JFi7p_1902_6936_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"480\"\nalt=\"Construction-Site Entrance a large hotel in Kyoto -- Copyright 2019 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"ii7p_6936\"\ntitle=\"Construction-Site Entrance a large hotel in Kyoto -- Copyright 2019 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">iPhone 7+ + iPhone 7 Plus back camera 3.99mm f\/1.8 at an effective 28mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>30 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.8, ISO 40 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJFi7p_1902_6936.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JFi7p_1902_6936.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Construction-Site Entrance<\/span>\n<br\/>a large hotel in Kyoto\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JFi7p_1902_6936.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2019-02-25'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Construction-Site Entrance a large hotel in Kyoto -- Copyright 2019 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>The scene above is the entrance to <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> large hotel nearing completion of construction. <span class='nobr'>The workers<\/span> putting the finishing touches on the interior have left their shoes at the entrance,\nand are presumably walking in socks or slippers. This mimics what one does at <span class='nobr'>a Japanese<\/span> home.<\/p>\n\n<p>When the hotel opens, people will walk in this public area with shoes like any other business, but\nuntil the construction company turns it over to the owner, they treat it with great care, so that it's\nturned over in pristine condition.<\/p>\n\n<p>I doubt that this would ever happen in America. When <span class='nobr'>I last<\/span> lived in America, asking <span class='nobr'>a visitor<\/span> (such as the cable installer) to\ntake their shoes off inside the house would be met with the same face as if <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> asked them to take their pants off.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene above is the entrance to a new large hotel nearing completion of construction. The workers putting the finishing touches on the interior have left their shoes at the entrance, and are presumably walking in socks or slippers. This mimics what one does at a Japanese home.<\/p> <p>When the hotel opens, people will walk in this public area with shoes like any other business, but until the construction company turns it over to the owner, they treat it with great care, so that it's turned over in pristine condition.<\/p> <p>I doubt that this would ever happen in America. When [...]","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\/2883"}],"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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}