{"id":4534,"date":"2012-01-30T14:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:06:17","slug":"sou-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/01\/sou-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"SOU Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4535\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/121_3278sou-wrestling.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4535\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/121_3278sou-wrestling.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Thomas Greg Alvarez southern oregon university wrestling menlo college\" title=\"sou wrestling Tyler Thomas Greg Alvarez menlo\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOU&#039;s Tyler Thomas squares off against Greg Alvarez of Menlo College<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/sumo\/>Sumo Wrestling<\/a>. I have attended live matches about a half dozen times while in Japan, and I watch Youtube videos of every tournament as the tournaments progress (every other month in Japan). However, I&#8217;ve never watched &#8220;regular&#8221; wrestling&#8211;not on TV, not live&#8211;until this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend I watched my first ever non-sumo wrestling at SOU. The #2 ranked Raiders easily rolled over their opponents from Menlo College. <\/p>\n<p>Wrestling is a horrible sport for photography. There is one light in the center of the mat, and the rest of the arena is darkness. I took a few hundred photos, but ended up deleting about 90% of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Sumo Wrestling. I have attended live matches about a half dozen times while in Japan, and I watch Youtube videos of every tournament as the tournaments progress (every other month in Japan). However, I&#8217;ve never watched &#8220;regular&#8221; wrestling&#8211;not on TV, not live&#8211;until this past weekend. This past weekend I watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[130,18,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30131,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions\/30131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}