{"id":1958,"date":"2009-04-02T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T22:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2009-04-02T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T22:46:04","slug":"the-japanese-squat-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/the-japanese-squat-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese squat toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_1281.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_1281-445x800.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"japanese squatter toilet\" width=\"445\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_1281-445x800.jpg 445w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_1281-83x150.jpg 83w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_1281.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For most of the night the rain splashed out of holes in the drainpipe and clattered on the window panes. And when I went downstairs to the lavatory, I found it crawling with inquisitive, bright orange maggots. <\/p>\n<p><BR> The rain stopped at five o&#8217;clock but the maggots were still there when I finally got up. So twice in the space of a couple of hours I was glad that rural Japanese-style lavatories&#8230; did not require my bum to come in contact with the porcelain. Hygienic-minded people have praised the arrangement on this account, though I can think of several drawbacks; &#8230;the pains and cramps that an unsupported squat must  inflict on the elderly, the ill, the crippled, or the heavily pregnant. And here were a few dozen more little drawbacks, doing orange congas round the inside of the bowl.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><BR>(Alan Booth in <I><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1568361483\/rpcman target=_new>Looking for the Lost<\/a><\/i> p. 173) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For most of the night the rain splashed out of holes in the drainpipe and clattered on the window panes. And when I went downstairs to the lavatory, I found it crawling with inquisitive, bright orange maggots. The rain stopped at five o&#8217;clock but the maggots were still there when I finally got up. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[180,150,153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}