{"id":1152,"date":"2008-03-20T23:38:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T03:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/attach-us-we-are-hot-japanese-men\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T22:47:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T02:47:26","slug":"attach-us-we-are-hot-japanese-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/20\/attach-us-we-are-hot-japanese-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Attach Us! We Are Hot Japanese Men!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

I am not making this up.<\/a><\/p>\n

Things I don’t understand:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Japanese popular culture<\/li>\n
  2. The very idea of “cell phone charms”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things I do understand:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Drunkenness<\/li>\n
    2. Drunkenness coming in stages<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      These things come together in the “drunken salaryman” charms, which I recently read about at Inventorspot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      The stages of being dunk [sic] according to these little plastic dudes are:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. The Lecturing Drunk (The guy in the picture up there)<\/li>\n
      2. The Uninhibited Drunk<\/li>\n
      3. The Angry Drunk<\/li>\n
      4. The Morose Drunk<\/li>\n
      5. The Nauseated Drunk<\/li>\n
      6. The Unconscious Drunk<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Yes, I’ve seen all of those. I would admit to having been all of them as well, but I recently learned my father-in-law occasionally reads this blog.<\/p>\n

        I have no interest in hanging little dolls off my cell phone, but it makes me laugh that there is a market somewhere for these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        I am not making this up. Things I don’t understand: Japanese popular culture The very idea of “cell phone charms” Things I do understand: Drunkenness Drunkenness coming in stages These things come together in the “drunken salaryman” charms, which I recently read about at Inventorspot. The stages of being dunk [sic] according to these little plastic dudes are: The Lecturing… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-benevolent-surrealism","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-iA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}