{"id":1599,"date":"2009-02-25T04:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2009-02-25T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T09:39:09","slug":"modern-urawaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1599","title":{"rendered":"Modern Urawaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/19\/technology\/personaltech\/19basics.html?em\">Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn postwar Japan, the economy wasn\u2019t doing so great, so you couldn\u2019t get everyday-use items like household cleaners,\u201d says Lisa Katayama, author of \u201cUrawaza,\u201d a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips and tricks. \u201cSo people looked for ways to do with what they had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Popular urawaza include picking up broken glass from the kitchen floor with a slice of bread, or placing houseplants on a water-soaked diaper to keep them watered during a vacation trip.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Americans are finding their own tips and tricks for fixing misbehaving gadgets with supplies as simple as paper and adhesive tape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems \u201cIn postwar Japan, the economy wasn\u2019t doing so great, so you couldn\u2019t get everyday-use items like household cleaners,\u201d says Lisa Katayama, author of \u201cUrawaza,\u201d a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general","category-science-y-observation","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}