{"id":5989,"date":"2012-06-19T01:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2012-06-19T01:50:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T11:50:27","slug":"thems-be-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/19\/thems-be-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Thems Be the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on the subject of security gurads in Japan, I was approached in English by an older gentleman at Meiji Jingu who told me, &#8220;no photography&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I was standing on the top step of the altar area where you give your offering, but on the stairway side, taking a picture of the shrine courtyard &#8211; opposite the sacred inner-sanctum (It&#8217;s pretty obvious to me to not be a cultural boor and take a picture of the sacred areas).\u00c2\u00a0 He pointed at the one step down from the top.\u00c2\u00a0 I stepped down one level and he walked away.\u00c2\u00a0 Essentially,\u00c2\u00a0if I wasn&#8217;t on the top step, I was out\u00c2\u00a0of his jurisdiction and responsibility, and\u00c2\u00a0I could go and\u00c2\u00a0do whatever I pleased and he didn&#8217;t care.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the kind of compartmentalized thinking that leads to nuclear powerplants melting down.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/19\/thems-be-the-rules\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"asides-permalink\" title=\"Permanent Link to Thems Be the Rules\">(0)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on the subject of security gurads in Japan, I was approached in English by an older gentleman at Meiji Jingu who told me, &#8220;no photography&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I was standing on the top step of the altar area where you give your offering, but on the stairway side, taking a picture of the shrine courtyard &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1yB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}