{"id":209,"date":"2003-03-06T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=209"},"modified":"2003-03-06T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2003-03-06T23:15:11","slug":"mobile-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/03\/06\/mobile-pics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mobilepics.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/mobilepics.jpg?resize=350%2C120\" width=\"350\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nOne of my regrets from this past year is that I didn&#8217;t buy a better mobile phone when I arrived in Japan. Instead of going for the latest and greatest, I decided to be frugal (somewhat unusual for me when it comes to gadgets). So I&#8217;ve been stuck with a phone that takes kind of crappy pictures. As such, I rarely use the phone&#8217;s camera and almost never post pictures from the phone on this site. Wish I&#8217;d gotten that fancy, expensive one I was ogling last summer.<br \/>\nThe images of Sam on the left and right above were taken on the Nagano Dentetsu line, a small private train line that runs locally in Nagano and the nearby suburb cities. It&#8217;s a train line that&#8217;s seen better days, and everyone complains about it because it&#8217;s so expensive. When riding on it in the late evening, it reminds me of Haruhiko Shono&#8217;s beautiful, lonely, haunting game\/experience, <a class=\"italic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/gadget.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/gadget.html', 'popup', 'width=628,height=393,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">Gadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my regrets from this past year is that I didn&#8217;t buy a better mobile phone when I arrived in Japan. Instead of going for the latest and greatest, I decided to be frugal (somewhat unusual for me when it comes to gadgets). So I&#8217;ve been stuck with a phone that takes kind of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/03\/06\/mobile-pics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile Pics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech-the-net","category-entries-with-images","category-life-in-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-3n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}