{"id":1778,"date":"2010-09-02T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2010-09-03T17:21:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T23:21:22","slug":"what-does-that-tattoo-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"What Does that Tattoo Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is to laugh. A blogger who reads Chinese and Japanese tells tattooed victims<\/span> people what those Asian characters really say\u2014if, indeed, they say anything.<\/p>\n

Such as green vegetable<\/a>. Or not chi<\/em> (qi<\/em>) but rice<\/a>. Or not “beautiful” but “disaster.”<\/a><\/p>\n

This must be the revenge of the Orient for our laughing at all those nonsensical<\/a> Japanese “Engrish” T-shirts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But you can take off a T-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is to laugh. A blogger who reads Chinese and Japanese tells tattooed victims people what those Asian characters really say\u2014if, indeed, they say anything. Such as green vegetable. Or not chi (qi) but rice. Or not “beautiful” but “disaster.” This must be the revenge of the Orient for our laughing at all those nonsensical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-sG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10153,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10153","url_meta":{"origin":1778,"position":0},"title":"The Japanese Do Animism So Well \u2014\u00a0But So Can You","author":"Chas S. 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