{"id":1132,"date":"2019-04-21T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2019-04-21T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T17:24:26","slug":"mascots-under-the-cherry-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/21\/mascots-under-the-cherry-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascots Under the Cherry Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-1-1024x670.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-1-1024x670.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-1-300x196.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-1-768x503.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-1-900x589.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image1-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spring is an eventful time of the year in my neighbourhood. When the cherry blossoms explode on the trees that line the river in Nakameguro, vendors are soon selling tasty delicacies from stalls, and the streets are bustling with revellers. Some popular mascots came out to play under the blossoms at the Meguro Sakura Festival, and I took some pictures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6-88x88.jpeg 88w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6-900x900.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image6.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Samurai Tamabe (the mascot for Japan&#8217;s national baseball team), Sanomaru, and Hoyaboya take to the stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image3-1-853x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image3-1-853x1024.jpeg 853w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image3-1-250x300.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image3-1-768x922.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image3-1-900x1081.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image3-1.jpeg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><figcaption>Mikyan, the tangerine dog mascot of Ehime Prefecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure 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When the cherry blossoms explode on the trees that line the river in Nakameguro, vendors are soon selling tasty delicacies from stalls, and the streets are bustling with revellers. Some popular mascots came out to play under the blossoms at the Meguro Sakura Festival, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,39],"tags":[53,4,5,55,54,6],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","category-tokyo","tag-fukkachan","tag-japan","tag-mascots","tag-mikyan","tag-sanomaru","tag-yuruchara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}