{"id":616,"date":"2017-09-23T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2017-09-23T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T08:56:40","slug":"niigata-mascots-descend-upon-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/23\/niigata-mascots-descend-upon-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Niigata Mascots Descend upon Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_619\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-image-619 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image4.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image4-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Bancho, Na-chan, Reruhi-san, Burikatsu-kun<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week, several mascots from Niigata were to be found in Ueno Station, Tokyo. They came to promote their home prefecture. I managed to see Black Bancho, a super-cool squid from Itoigawa City; Reruhi-San, the 270cm-tall skiing mascot based on Theodor Von-Lerch, an Austro-Hungarian major who brought the sport to Japan; Na-chan, a fireworks fairy from Nagaoka; and Burikatsu-kun, a half-man\/half-fish from Sado Island.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_617\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-617\" class=\"wp-image-617 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3-88x88.jpeg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Bancho<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_620\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-image-620 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2-88x88.jpeg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Na-chan, the fireworks fairy<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_618\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"wp-image-618 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image5.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image5-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image5-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image5-88x88.jpeg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reruhi-san jabs Burikatsu-kun with a fork.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japanese Squid mascot Black Bancho dances\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSUp1bNiXIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=mondomascots\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, several mascots from Niigata were to be found in Ueno Station, Tokyo. They came to promote their home prefecture. I managed to see Black Bancho, a super-cool squid from Itoigawa City; Reruhi-San, the 270cm-tall skiing mascot based on Theodor Von-Lerch, an Austro-Hungarian major who brought the sport to Japan; Na-chan, a fireworks fairy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}