{"id":275,"date":"2005-05-01T17:11:43","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T17:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2005-05-01T17:11:43","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T17:11:43","slug":"polite_smoking_fong_pei_action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/polite_smoking_fong_pei_action\/","title":{"rendered":"Polite Smoking &#038; Fong Pei action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jti.co.jp\/\">Japan Tobacco<\/a> is trying to get smokers to be more considerate to non smokers.<br \/>\nCommendable.<br \/>\nSo they&#8217;ve engaged in a very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jti.co.jp\/sstyle\/manners\/ad\/change\/gallery\/index.html\">creative ad campaign<\/a> that surprisingly is minimal in its use of engrish.  This one is my favourite!<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"im_grapic30.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/archives\/im_grapic30.gif?resize=435%2C309\" width=\"435\" height=\"309\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been hinted that some of these adverts are aimed at gaijin since the english used actually makes sense.  Even if it&#8217;s haiku-like.<br \/>\nIt definitely ain&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrish.com\">Engrish<\/a>!<br \/>\n(<em>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyotimes.org\">Tokyo Times<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Tobacco is trying to get smokers to be more considerate to non smokers. Commendable. So they&#8217;ve engaged in a very creative ad campaign that surprisingly is minimal in its use of engrish. This one is my favourite! It&#8217;s been hinted that some of these adverts are aimed at gaijin since the english used actually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/polite_smoking_fong_pei_action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polite Smoking &#038; Fong Pei action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-japan-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-4r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}