{"id":537,"date":"2010-08-19T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:14:35","slug":"big-buddha-is-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2010\/08\/19\/big-buddha-is-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Buddha Is Watching You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post office I know in West Los Angeles has more security cameras than postal workers. (The cameras are monitoring the long line of waiting customers, but not the postal workers who usually move slower than sloths. Then again, since the price of postage keeps rising by the month, they must guard against the distinct possibility of armed stamp robberies).<\/p>\n<p>These days, surveillance cameras are watching us in the most bizarre of places.\u00a0Here is a picture I took at the entrance to a Buddhist temple.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 410px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_2597.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-538\" title=\"IMG_2597\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_2597-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_2597-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_2597-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_2597-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_2597.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Cameras are monitoring the entrance to a Buddhist temple.<br \/>\nPhoto: Reinhard Kargl, 2010. Click to enlarge.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3445\">Coat And Hat Stands<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3415\">Halloween 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3221\">Halloween 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3211\">Forward!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3175\">Breathe!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post office I know in West Los Angeles has more security cameras than postal workers. (The cameras are monitoring the long line of waiting customers, but not the postal workers who usually move slower than sloths. Then again, since the price of postage keeps rising by the month, they must guard against the distinct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}