{"id":1066,"date":"2008-12-07T23:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2008-12-09T00:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T07:03:39","slug":"a297-chinese-novelty-matchboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"#a297 :: Chinese novelty matchboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/120708.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/120708-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1067\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/120708-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/120708-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/120708.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I can&#8217;t tell if these are serious products of Chinese public-health propaganda agencies or just an <a href=\"http:\/\/engrish.com\/\">Engrish<\/a> yock cooked up by China&#8217;s ever-creative but English-impaired export trade. Not sure it matters &#8211; they&#8217;ll own us completely by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>All I know is these were 40 cents each at a curio shop in Chinatown, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrasaleonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">link<\/a>  and they came with striking surfaces but no matches. The sides bear <a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/120808b.jpg'>this helpful warning<\/a> and &#8211; in much smaller print &#8211; the epigram, <a href=\"http:\/\/100mg-viagra.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">cheapest<\/a>  &#8220;Childhood memory, combustion pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>The one at bottom left of the stack says &#8220;DO NOT PEE OUT.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t tell if these are serious products of Chinese public-health propaganda agencies or just an Engrish yock cooked up by China&#8217;s ever-creative but English-impaired export trade. Not sure it matters &#8211; they&#8217;ll own us completely by 2020. All I know is these were 40 cents each at a curio shop in Chinatown, link and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-ephemera","category-symbol","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}