{"id":2253,"date":"2026-05-25T13:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/?post_type=messages&#038;p=2253"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:03:55","slug":"greetings-from-the-outskirts-of-kyoto-vol-64","status":"publish","type":"messages","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/messages\/2253\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays most cars are fitted with dash cameras. Several years ago, there was a lot of fuss on the TV about what to do when you are the victim of road rage. Getting a dash cam fitted was your best option, according to most commentators on TV.<\/p>\r\n<p>Recently, dash cams have been widely employed in criminal investigations, too. The visual records they take serve a useful purpose. I hear that the police call on drivers to hand in their data. The police gather information from cars that were driving by the scene of a crime.<\/p>\r\n<p>Road rage does not feature much on TV now. I wonder whether perhaps\u2026 that was just a police tactic. Was road rage a ruse to get as many drivers as possible to fit dash cams, in order to help the police with their criminal investigations? Were reports of road rage just a media ploy to that end?<\/p>\r\n<p>Naughty me! I have ended up writing something based on unfounded speculation. This is what they call a conspiracy theory, right? But in my case, I simply wanted to convey to you, my readers, what I have ended up thinking. Your indulgence, please!<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2263,"template":"","message_category":[23],"class_list":["post-2253","messages","type-messages","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","message_category-serialization-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/messages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/messages"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"message_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.nichibun.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message_category?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}