{"id":2217,"date":"2007-08-04T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2007-11-18T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T21:40:21","slug":"black-is-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/04\/black-is-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Black is the new black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starflyer.jp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/star_flyer.jpg\" alt=\"star_flyer.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what we want\u2014an airline that matches my monochrome wardrobe. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starflyer.jp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star Flyer<\/a> is Japanese, unfortunately, and I&#8217;m guessing that black doesn&#8217;t have the same funereal associations in Japan; that livery wouldn&#8217;t, er \u201cfly\u201d here. Makes a change from the sky blue monotony that&#8217;s the usual colour scheme in aircraft, anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/pingmag.jp\/2007\/07\/19\/black\/\" target=\"_blank\">PingMag<\/a> looks at the resurgence of interest in black as a Japanese design choice, from toilet paper to cotton swabs, toothpaste and even black eggs. If you were eating the latter you&#8217;d have to be listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/punkpsych\/nightcrawlers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nightcrawlers<\/a> at the same time. And drinking black coffee. But I&#8217;d advise that you avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_Sausage\" target=\"_blank\">black pudding<\/a>; that stuff is just nasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what we want\u2014an airline that matches my monochrome wardrobe. Star Flyer is Japanese, unfortunately, and I&#8217;m guessing that black doesn&#8217;t have the same funereal associations in Japan; that livery wouldn&#8217;t, er \u201cfly\u201d here. Makes a change from the sky blue monotony that&#8217;s the usual colour scheme in aircraft, anyway. PingMag looks at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/04\/black-is-the-new-black\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black is the new black&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[4979],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-pingmag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-zL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}