{"id":656,"date":"2017-11-08T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2017-11-08T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:21:37","slug":"tokoron-joins-a-samba-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/08\/tokoron-joins-a-samba-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokoron Joins a Samba Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-659\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image1-1-1024x883.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image1-1-1024x883.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image1-1-300x259.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image1-1-768x662.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image1-1-900x776.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image1-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><br \/>\nTokoron, the lovable of mascot of Tokorozawa City in Saitama Prefecture, celebrated his seventh birthday last weekend. Tokorozawa is the home of aviation in Japan and was the site of the country&#8217;s first airport, and thus Tokoron is a human\/plane hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I was lucky enough to witness the spectacle of Tokoron exuberantly dancing in a parade. An incongruous but entertaining part of Tokorozawa&#8217;s otherwise traditional annual festival is the samba parade, so Tokoron was dressed in a flamboyant carnival costume. I salute whoever danced for hours in that cumbersome costume.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-657\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1-88x88.jpeg 88w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1-900x900.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image2-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-658\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image3-1-793x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image3-1-793x1024.jpeg 793w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image3-1-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image3-1-768x992.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image3-1-900x1162.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image3-1.jpeg 979w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tokoron samba dances\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTYZ76MhjmI?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>Tokoron, the lovable of mascot of Tokorozawa City in Saitama Prefecture, celebrated his seventh birthday last weekend. Tokorozawa is the home of aviation in Japan and was the site of the country&#8217;s first airport, and thus Tokoron is a human\/plane hybrid. Last month I was lucky enough to witness the spectacle of Tokoron exuberantly dancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,25],"tags":[4,5,28,6],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","category-videos","tag-japan","tag-mascots","tag-tokoron","tag-yuruchara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","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=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}