{"id":76,"date":"2007-10-15T04:04:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/tourist\/random-observations-from-china-toilets\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T04:04:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T08:04:56","slug":"random-observations-from-china-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/tourist\/random-observations-from-china-toilets\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Observations from China: Toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/China_toilet.jpg\" alt=\"An example of a Chinese toilet\" class=\"right\"\/>\r\n<p>It keeps taking me days to put together posts so I&#8217;m going to try to get used to writing quicker by firing off a few quick ones of random odd things I see while I&#8217;m travelling in China. In that vein, the first subject is toilets. I ran into these in Japan and Korea so I guess they&#8217;re not exclusive to China but this time I actually got around to taking a picture. So the Asian toilet:<\/p> \r\n\r\n<p>As you can see someone seems to have decided to cut all &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; parts and reduce the toilet to it&#8217;s essence, a hole in the ground. I guess it makes sense since you don&#8217;t really want to touch anything in a public toilet. It (and perhaps the lower average weight) also explains why I see a lot more people over here squatting during normal circumstances. I guess it would make you ready for camping too although there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much of that here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another interesting point is the garbage can next to the toilet. I had never ran into this before and had no idea it meant you were supposed to throw your toilet paper in there until I mentioned to my fiancee that they sure expected people to have a lot of garbage in the bathroom. I may have left a string of clogged toilets behind me before that. Anyway, it&#8217;s surprisingly easy to get used to although I still forget once in a while (no I don&#8217;t go fishing. it seems a couple misplaced sheets don&#8217;t hurt). I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a habit I&#8217;ll carry back to the US though.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It keeps taking me days to put together posts so I&#8217;m going to try to get used to writing quicker by firing off a few quick ones of random odd things I see while I&#8217;m travelling in China. In that vein, the first subject is toilets. I ran into these in Japan and Korea so [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[207,203,208,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}