{"id":91,"date":"2016-11-22T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2016-12-11T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T10:05:41","slug":"a-pen-pineapple-apple-pen-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/22\/a-pen-pineapple-apple-pen-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen Mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/piplekun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Piple-Kun<\/a> is the mascot of Hawaii&#8217;s Aloha Gas company. He&#8217;s an anthropomorphic pineapple in a Hawaiian shirt, his star sign is Leo, and he likes eating spam.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yurugp.jp\/img\/uploads\/character\/650\/00000041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"790\" \/>I ran into Piple-Kun at the Yuru-chara festival on Sunday. He appears to have been repurposed as a cheerleader for Pikotaro, singer of the PPAP song, complete with the leopard skin shirt and permed hair. He even got up on stage and sang Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2185-e1479794091347-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2185-e1479794091347-768x1024.jpeg 675w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2185-e1479794091347-768x1024-215x300.jpeg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Piko-taro is cleverly milking his fifteen minutes of fame for all its worth. I recently popped into his new Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen cafe in Oshiage, at the foot of the Tokyo Sky Tree, for a PPAP parfait. Not bad, but overpriced. I hope they pay the staff well &#8211; listening to that song on repeat four hundred times a day would drive anyone to ram a pen into their own skull.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15085664_10154561779450977_8801672101145906291_n.jpeg\" alt=\"15085664_10154561779450977_8801672101145906291_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15085664_10154561779450977_8801672101145906291_n.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15085664_10154561779450977_8801672101145906291_n-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15085664_10154561779450977_8801672101145906291_n-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15085664_10154561779450977_8801672101145906291_n-900x675.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15170817_10154561779660977_8348779881689805916_n.jpeg\" alt=\"15170817_10154561779660977_8348779881689805916_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15170817_10154561779660977_8348779881689805916_n.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15170817_10154561779660977_8348779881689805916_n-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15170817_10154561779660977_8348779881689805916_n-768x573.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15170817_10154561779660977_8348779881689805916_n-900x671.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/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>Piple-Kun is the mascot of Hawaii&#8217;s Aloha Gas company. He&#8217;s an anthropomorphic pineapple in a Hawaiian shirt, his star sign is Leo, and he likes eating spam.I ran into Piple-Kun at the Yuru-chara festival on Sunday. He appears to have been repurposed as a cheerleader for Pikotaro, singer of the PPAP song, complete with the [&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],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","tag-japan","tag-mascots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}