{"id":21,"date":"2003-07-03T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2003-07-03T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T16:48:53","slug":"there-is-no-excuse-for-poor-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"there is no excuse for poor design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t everything be cute? Is it really so difficult to make cute everyday items? Why are garbage cans and dish drainers and other utilitarian items usually so ugly? It&#8217;s just not fun! But this is why I get very excited when I do see cute things in places like Target. Check out these great CD-Rs by TDK that are sold at Target!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/tdk cdrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tdk cdrs.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/tdk cdrs-thumb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s a good sign! Maybe there will be more cool CD-Rs. Last year, on our trip to Japan, I found these super cool CD-Rs in Fukuoka: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/japan cdrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"japan cdrs.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/japan cdrs-thumb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI would have bought more, but we had to lug all our purchases back to my aunt&#8217;s on the train, so I had to control myself. I didn&#8217;t see others like these anywhere else in Japan (but I wasn&#8217;t frequenting electronics shops). I&#8217;m scared to use them because they are too nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t everything be cute? Is it really so difficult to make cute everyday items? Why are garbage cans and dish drainers and other utilitarian items usually so ugly? It&#8217;s just not fun! But this is why I get very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=21\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}