{"id":347,"date":"2004-05-29T03:06:30-04:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T11:06:30+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2004-05-29T03:06:30-04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-29T11:06:30+00:00","slug":"sdrawkcab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/05\/29\/sdrawkcab\/","title":{"rendered":"sdrawkcab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Proving once again that everything is on the Internet, I just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videor.co.jp\/eng\/press\/020403_2.htm#data2\">a study<\/a> that found that about 25% of Japanese people read newspapers back-to-front.  Reading the paper <cite class=\"term\">backwards<\/cite> is a habit I&#8217;ve had for a long time; I don&#8217;t just read from the last section to the first, but from the last page of each section to the first.  (There&#8217;s one exception: the local Sunday paper comes in a tabloid format with <cite class=\"term\">pull-out<\/cite> sections, and I tend to read the sections in order, each section front to back.)  I&#8217;ve come across a few people that behave similarly, but the fraction who do is nowhere near a quarter.<\/p>\n\n<p>This begs the question, then, of whether this is a predominantly Japanese trait or if it&#8217;s simply more common than my personal experience would indicate.  I don&#8217;t have enough regular readers&#8211;at least, not enough who actively comment&#8211;to generate anything close to a reasonable statistical sample, but I&#8217;ll put it out there anyway: in what order do you read your newspaper?<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proving once again that everything is on the Internet, I just came across a study that found that about 25% of Japanese people read newspapers back-to-front. Reading the paper backwards is a habit I&#8217;ve had for a long time; I don&#8217;t just read from the last section to the first, but from the last page&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}