{"id":983,"date":"2018-11-13T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:59:49","slug":"mascot-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/mascot-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascot Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_988\" style=\"width: 1202px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-988\" class=\"wp-image-988 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1192\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image4.jpeg 1192w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image4-300x290.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image4-768x742.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image4-1024x990.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image4-900x870.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kouenji&#8217;s mascot Psyche Delhi-san takes on Tomato Ningen, the human\/tomato slice.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last month I went to a mascot event in Kouenji, a grungy corner of Tokyo known for its live music scene and second-hand clothes shops. Appropriately for the location, the mascots in attendance were mostly obscure or unofficial. The highlight of the day was a wrestling tournament held in front of the station, during which the furry characters battled each other with amusingly clumsy and uncoordinated piledrivers and chokeslams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-989\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image6.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image6-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image6-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image6-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image6-900x506.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japanese mascots wrestling\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QOo5BGDZWiU?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>Last month I went to a mascot event in Kouenji, a grungy corner of Tokyo known for its live music scene and second-hand clothes shops. Appropriately for the location, the mascots in attendance were mostly obscure or unofficial. The highlight of the day was a wrestling tournament held in front of the station, during which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,39,25],"tags":[4,5,18,6],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-mascots","category-tokyo","category-videos","tag-japan","tag-mascots","tag-tokyo","tag-yuruchara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mondomascots.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}