{"id":3225,"date":"2009-06-29T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2009-06-29T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:02:31","slug":"blessed-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/06\/29\/blessed-cellphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Ashcraft of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a> was having terrible luck with cell phones: he ran through four of them in less than a year. So he took his next one to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kandamyoujin.or.jp\/english\/e01.html\">Kanda Shrine<\/a> near Akihabara, which specializes in spiritually purifying electronic equipment. Result: one shiny new purified and blessed cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>He describes the process in a photo essay: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/culturereviews\/magazine\/17-07\/st_gadgetshrine\">Gadget Blessings: Shinto Priest Protects Electronics From Bad Mojo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Presumably it won&#8217;t let him browse for porn, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to mind.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Ashcraft of Wired was having terrible luck with cell phones: he ran through four of them in less than a year. So he took his next one to the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/06\/29\/blessed-cellphone\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japaneseculture","tag-shinto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}