{"id":9417,"date":"2012-05-01T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=9417"},"modified":"2012-05-01T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:26:55","slug":"wild-lions-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/wild-lions-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild lions in Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/19115358-abunai-lion-tanzawa-danger-japan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/19115358-abunai-lion-tanzawa-danger-japan-528x800.jpg\" alt=\"beware of lions tokyo japan\" title=\"abunai lion tanzawa danger japan\" width=\"528\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/19115358-abunai-lion-tanzawa-danger-japan-528x800.jpg 528w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/19115358-abunai-lion-tanzawa-danger-japan-165x250.jpg 165w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/19115358-abunai-lion-tanzawa-danger-japan.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/tanzawa\/>Tanzawa hike<\/a>, not far from Tokyo and the most heavily populated metropolis in the world, I saw this sign which says something like, &#8220;Danger! Do not ever enter&#8221;. Really? Are lions back there? I wanted to enter just to see what was so dangerous in this country which has been so completely controlled and tamed.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason fear is a big factor when people are hiking in Japan. I&#8217;ve seen bears, snakes, and other potentially dangerous wildlife on hikes in Oregon, but in Japan the biggest threat, in my experience, are the black crows. Even so, most Japanese hikers head out with bells ringing to scare away the (non-existent) beasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my Tanzawa hike, not far from Tokyo and the most heavily populated metropolis in the world, I saw this sign which says something like, &#8220;Danger! Do not ever enter&#8221;. Really? Are lions back there? I wanted to enter just to see what was so dangerous in this country which has been so completely controlled [&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":[17,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417"}],"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=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9417\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}