{"id":110,"date":"2004-12-14T16:54:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/lap-pillow\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T16:54:56","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T00:54:56","slug":"lap-pillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/lap-pillow\/","title":{"rendered":"Lap pillow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was innocently checking out BBC News’s Day in Pictures<\/a> when I came across this<\/a>. The caption reads: <\/p>\n

“Makoto Igarashi, inventor of the ‘lap pillow’, a top selling Japanese product, demonstrates his creation in Tokyo.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A little searching reveals a few<\/a> posts<\/a> about the lap pillow before it was released. Apparently, it’s a follow-up to the boyfriend arm pillow<\/a>, which I somehow missed the first time around.<\/p>\n

Insert pithy clich\u00e9 making fun of a culture different from your own here.–> Damn those Japanese are weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was innocently checking out BBC News’s Day in Pictures when I came across this. The caption reads: “Makoto Igarashi, inventor of the ‘lap pillow’, a top selling Japanese product, demonstrates his creation in Tokyo.” A little searching reveals a few posts about the lap pillow before it was released. Apparently, it’s a follow-up to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-1M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}