{"id":6907,"date":"2015-12-07T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2015-12-07T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:40:10","slug":"every-which-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2015\/every-which-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Every which way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo (blurry, I know) of the side of a bus in Taipei. I took this because the bus has text in Chinese characters running in three different directions: top to bottom, right to left, and left to right. <\/p>\n

Taiwanese wouldn’t find this particularly confusing, as this sort of thing is not entirely uncommon here, though right-to-left horizontal writing is seen less and less. <\/p>\n

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I’m posting this mainly so I can refer to this example later if need be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo (blurry, I know) of the side of a bus in Taipei. I took this because the bus has text in Chinese characters running in three different directions: top to bottom, right to left, and left to right. … Continue reading →<\/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":[12,15,1,32,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-general","category-mandarin","category-taipei","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6945,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}