{"id":480,"date":"2007-10-16T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/you-think-im-obsessive-about-japanese-vending-machines-hah\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T03:01:13","slug":"you-think-im-obsessive-about-japanese-vending-machines-hah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/you-think-im-obsessive-about-japanese-vending-machines-hah","title":{"rendered":"You Think I&#8217;m Obsessive About Japanese Vending Machines? Hah."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that I&#8217;ll never really succeed in conveying the allure of Japanese vending machines to my fellow Americans, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/special-report-beverage-vending-machines\/\">my concerted effort<\/a> to do so in my travel blog. People I&#8217;ve spoken to since returning have looked at me with thinly hidden skepticism when I expound upon my fascination, or when I remark that domestic vending machines are entirely dull and narrow by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>As evidence that I&#8217;m not the only one with this fascination, and that there is at least one other person whose obsessive interest completely overshadows my casual observation, I direct you to <a href=\"http:\/\/jihan.sblo.jp\/\">this site.<\/a> Someone in Japan takes photos of the same vending machine nearly every day and documents any changes they observe. It appears that they&#8217;ve been doing this for over two years. The site is in Japanese but you can pretty much get the idea anyway, and Google&#8217;s translation service can help fill in the blanks and\/or make it all seem sillier than it already is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect that I&#8217;ll never really succeed in conveying the allure of Japanese vending machines to my fellow Americans, despite my concerted effort to do so in my travel blog. People I&#8217;ve spoken to since returning have looked at me with thinly hidden skepticism when I expound upon my fascination, or when I remark that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/you-think-im-obsessive-about-japanese-vending-machines-hah\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Think I&#8217;m Obsessive About Japanese Vending Machines? Hah.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}