{"id":15662,"date":"2002-08-20T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/20\/chindogu-is-the-japanese-word-for-a-weird-tool\/"},"modified":"2002-08-20T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T11:22:00","slug":"chindogu-is-the-japanese-word-for-a-weird-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/20\/chindogu-is-the-japanese-word-for-a-weird-tool\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marks-patents.com\/chindogu\/chindogu_index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Chindogu<\/i><\/a> is the Japanese word for a &ldquo;weird tool&rdquo; or a &ldquo;(nearly) useless&rdquo; invention. You really need to take a look at some of these wacky inventions; I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marks-patents.com\/chindogu\/chindogu_6.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cat duster slippers<\/a> are my favorite.  And because you just can&rsquo;t get enough weird Japanese inventions, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chindogu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Chindogu Society&rsquo;s page<\/a> or buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393313697\/andrewchorney\" target=\"_blank\"><u>101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu<\/u><\/a> at amazon.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85362492?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chindogu is the Japanese word for a &ldquo;weird tool&rdquo; or a &ldquo;(nearly) useless&rdquo; invention. You really need to take a look at some of these wacky inventions; I think the cat duster slippers are my favorite. And because you just can&rsquo;t get enough weird Japanese inventions, check out the International Chindogu Society&rsquo;s page or buy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/20\/chindogu-is-the-japanese-word-for-a-weird-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}