{"id":7257,"date":"2011-04-09T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2011-04-10T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T16:27:34","slug":"free-sumo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/free-sumo\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Sumo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1010017trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1010017trim-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kyokutenho arrives tokyo sumo ryogoku japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1010017trim-800x496.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1010017trim-250x155.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/P1010017trim.jpg 1739w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to bout fixing, the March Grand Sumo Tournament was cancelled, and the May Tournament is now going to be free. Numerous sumo wrestlers who were linked to the match fixing have been forced to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s photo is of Kyokutenho (\u65ed\u5929\u9d6c), who was not one of those found guilty. Many of the sumo <I>rikishi<\/I>, like nearly everyone else in Japan, travel by train. You can watch them walk from the train station to <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/sumo-%E7%9B%B8%E6%92%B2-part-4\/>Ryogoku Kokugikan<\/a> in Tokyo simply by waiting outside on tournament days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to bout fixing, the March Grand Sumo Tournament was cancelled, and the May Tournament is now going to be free. Numerous sumo wrestlers who were linked to the match fixing have been forced to retire. Today&#8217;s photo is of Kyokutenho (\u65ed\u5929\u9d6c), who was not one of those found guilty. Many of the sumo rikishi, [&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":[176,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257"}],"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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7261,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}