{"id":1334,"date":"2006-11-19T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2006-11-27T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T22:02:29","slug":"made-in-whereverland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Made in Whereverland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span>ack in the early Eighties, <a id=\"p1333\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1333\" title=\"Made in China\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/ma_de_in_china.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Made in China\" \/><\/a>we used to make jokes about every single electronic product, which always appeared to come with a label &#8216;Made In Japan&#8217;. In the early 90s, production of electronical goods apparantly shifted to Taiwan and Singapore (&#8216;The Asian Tigers&#8217;). Nowadays, it looks like everything is made in China: from advanced electronics to delicious butter tarts.\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, I looked up the manuals of a laptop and discovered that the accompanying Microsoft Windows XP manual (or rather booklet) was actually printed in China. At that time, this made no sense: what&#8217;s the point of ordering booklets to be printed in China and have them flown (shipped) into North America. Wouldn&#8217;t that be expensive?\n<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, since most laptops are made in China, it probably doesn&#8217;t make sense to ship them with booklets made in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early Eighties, we used to make jokes about every single electronic product, which always appeared to come with a label &#8216;Made In Japan&#8217;. In the early 90s, production of electronical goods apparantly shifted to Taiwan and Singapore &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}