{"id":35937,"date":"2016-01-26T23:24:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=35937"},"modified":"2016-01-26T23:26:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:26:46","slug":"tanuki-are-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tanuki-are-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanuki are Real!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-life-tanuki.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-life-tanuki.jpg\" alt=\"real-life-tanuki\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-life-tanuki.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-life-tanuki-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-life-tanuki-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-life-tanuki-450x272.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As written by <a href=\"  \" target=\"_blank\">New York Magazine<\/a>, &#8220;But, as the internet is finding out today, tanuki are real, and they\u2019re spectacularly cute.&#8221;  Wait a minute! Was there ever, even for a moment, any actual uncertainty that tanuki are a real animal species? Are there actually people who thought that tanuki only existed as mascot statues, a Super Mario cosplay outfit, and characters in a Studio Ghibli movie? I mean, yes, tanuki really do exist.  They&#8217;re not like capybara.  Now those things can&#8217;t possibly exist in real life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6AW5W9HuB1M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As written by New York Magazine, &#8220;But, as the internet is finding out today, tanuki are real, and they\u2019re spectacularly cute.&#8221; Wait a minute! Was there ever, even for a moment, any actual uncertainty that tanuki are a real animal species? Are there actually people who thought that tanuki only existed as mascot statues, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-life-tanuki.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35940,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35937\/revisions\/35940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}