{"id":5970,"date":"2009-12-16T07:13:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T11:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2009-12-20T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:53:34","slug":"garage-is-more-important-than-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/2009\/12\/garage-is-more-important-than-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"garage is more important than a house"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka2.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>To some, it&#8217;s true, but not for me<!--more-->.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka3.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka4.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka5.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka6.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka7.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka8.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka9.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"bitshort\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatwedoissecret.org\/madebyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/takarazuka1.jpg?w=1300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"photos\" class=\"floatright\">via <b>Kawai Sekkei Kobo<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span>&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<sup>Who:<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.jp\/e12mkawai\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Masaya Kawai<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<sup>What:<\/sup> Garage with living space<br \/>\n<sup>Where:<\/sup> Takarazuka City, Hy\u014dgo Prefecture<br \/>\n<sup>When:<\/sup> October 2006<br \/>\n<sup>How:<\/sup> Two-story steel\/wood frame construction<br \/>\n<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To some, it&#8217;s true, but not for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","tag-japan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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