{"id":472,"date":"2007-05-27T20:35:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-05-27\/472"},"modified":"2007-05-27T20:35:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T11:35:38","slug":"preparing-a-paddy-for-rice-seedlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-05-27\/472","title":{"rendered":"Preparing a Paddy for Rice Seedlings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>On the drive in the mountains yesterday, after the lovely <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-05-26\/471\">field of purple flowers<\/a>,\nwe came across this farmer preparing one rice paddy in between two that\nwere already planted.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='031093' href=\"\/i\/JEF_031093.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_031093_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Preparing the Paddy -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i031093\"\ntitle=\"Man on a tractor tilling a water-filled rice paddy, in Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>60 sec, f\/4.5, ISO 500 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_031093.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_031093.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Preparing the Paddy<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='031095' href=\"\/i\/JEF_031095.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_031095_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\"\nalt=\"Rice Waiting to be Planted -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i031095\"\ntitle=\"Man on a tractor tilling a water-filled rice paddy, in Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 26mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>90 sec, f\/4.5, ISO 500 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_031095.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_031095.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Rice Waiting to be Planted<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For actually planting the rice, the tractor takes an attachment that\nholds tray after tray of rice seedlings, and automatically puts them into\nrows as he drives along. <span class='nobr'>The clump<\/span> in the foreground above are some such\ntrays, likely left over when the foreground paddy was planted. <span class='nobr'>I suspect<\/span> they'll use them in the paddy being prepared in the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='031097' href=\"\/i\/JEF_031097.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_031097_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Just-Planted Rice -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i031097\"\nnoindex=\"1\"\ntitle=\"Rows of just-planted rice seedlings in a rice paddy in Kyoto, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>60 sec, f\/4.5, ISO 500 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_031097.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_031097.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Just-Planted Rice<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='031100' href=\"\/i\/JEF_031100.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_031100_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i031100\"\nphotostream=\"japan,spring\"\ntitle=\"Rows of just-planted rice seedlings in a rice paddy in Kyoto, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 55mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>90 sec, f\/4.5, ISO 500 &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_031100.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_031100.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the drive in the mountains yesterday, after the lovely field of purple flowers, we came across this farmer preparing one rice paddy in between two that were already planted.<\/p> <p>For actually planting the rice, the tractor takes an attachment that holds tray after tray of rice seedlings, and automatically puts them into rows as he drives along. The clump in the foreground above are some such trays, likely left over when the foreground paddy was planted. I suspect they'll use them in the paddy being prepared in the photo.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}