{"id":6360,"date":"2010-09-28T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2010-09-28T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T23:14:08","slug":"suicidal-samurai-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/suicidal-samurai-helmet\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicidal Samurai Helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1020600trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1020600trim-474x800.jpg\" alt=\"tokyo national museum ueno park\" title=\"samurai helmet peacock \" width=\"474\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1020600trim-474x800.jpg 474w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1020600trim-148x250.jpg 148w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/P1020600trim.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is from the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/tokyo-national-museum-garden-and-tea-house\/>Tokyo National Museum<\/a> in Ueno Park.<\/p>\n<p>I have two theories about this helmet. The first is that it wasn&#8217;t meant for battle. It must have merely been decorative. My other theory is that the guy who designed it secretly wanted the person who wore it to be killed rather quickly. Perhaps the designer thought the recipient had an ego as great as his stupidity (or death wish) and would wear such a thing in battle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo is from the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno Park. I have two theories about this helmet. The first is that it wasn&#8217;t meant for battle. It must have merely been decorative. My other theory is that the guy who designed it secretly wanted the person who wore it to be killed rather quickly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[125,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}