{"id":635,"date":"2017-10-07T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2017-10-07T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T16:32:10","slug":"japanese-mascots-play-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/07\/japanese-mascots-play-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Mascots Play Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_636\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-636\" class=\"wp-image-636 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image1-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image1-1-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuruchara team photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today in Tokyo, several mascots got together to play soccer near Osaki station. Osaki&#8217;s mascot, Ichiban Taro, was there, as was reigning Yuruchara Grand Prix champion, Shinjou-kun the extinct river otter.<\/p>\n<p>It was more of a penalty shootout than a match, with mascots pairing off to compete against each other until a winner could be decided. The eventual winner was the local TV station mascot, a yellow dog named Shinagawan. At one point an anthropomorphic tomato slice named Tomato Ningen missed the goal and the ball hit me. This is a high-risk hobby.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_637\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-image-637 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image5-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image5-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image5-1-300x199.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shinjou-kun shoots and scores.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_640\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-640\" class=\"wp-image-640 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image3-1-88x88.jpeg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nonko scores a goal.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_639\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-639\" class=\"wp-image-639 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image2-1-300x293.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harajuku Miccolo and Momo compete to win.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_638\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-638\" class=\"wp-image-638 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1-88x88.jpeg 88w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1-900x900.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image4-1.jpeg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local mascot Osaki Ichibantaro displays some fancy footwork.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tomato\u2019s penalty kick hits cameraman\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5XDIg5fWVU?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>Today in Tokyo, several mascots got together to play soccer near Osaki station. Osaki&#8217;s mascot, Ichiban Taro, was there, as was reigning Yuruchara Grand Prix champion, Shinjou-kun the extinct river otter. It was more of a penalty shootout than a match, with mascots pairing off to compete against each other until a winner could be [&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],"tags":[4,5,26,6],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","tag-japan","tag-mascots","tag-soccer","tag-yuruchara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}