{"id":43407,"date":"2014-07-09T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/how-a-japanese-engineer-changed-the-world.html"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:35:48","slug":"how-a-japanese-engineer-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/how-a-japanese-engineer-changed-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"How a Japanese engineer changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Or, at least, changed typography and annotations and data retrieval and possibly language itself. I give you: <i>emoji.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(via <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104903796944242132513\" oid=\"104903796944242132513\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-brief-history-of-how-emoji-took-over-your-phone-1602303161\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-brief-history-of-how-emoji-took-over-your-phone-1602303161<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tITwM5GDIAI' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/bnV6GiuWnTW' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, at least, changed typography and annotations and data retrieval and possibly language itself. I give you: emoji. (via +Gizmodo\u00a0at http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-brief-history-of-how-emoji-took-over-your-phone-1602303161)\ufeff View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135216,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/google-weird-emoji-problems.html","url_meta":{"origin":43407,"position":0},"title":"Google has some weird emoji problems","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Oct-17 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing scandalous, just ... weird. 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