{"id":190,"date":"2004-04-23T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/04\/my-dog-shisar\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T18:32:47","slug":"my-dog-shisar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/04\/23\/my-dog-shisar\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dog, Shisar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"shisar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/shisar.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThese dogs are Shisar, the guardians of the Ryukyu (Okinawan) Islands. You see them all over the place in Okinawa, on keychains, t-shirts, and anything else that is sold on the Kokusai-dori (the main tourist street in Naha).<br \/>\nOf all of the Shisar statues that I encountered, I especially like these. They remind me of our Pekingnese dogs, especially Jane. That was one cool dog.<br \/>\nI just watched Kill Bill vol. 1 two days ago for the first time, and spotted Shisar in two different scenes. When Black Mamba is purchasing tickets for Okinawa (one way) a pair resides on the back shelf, over the shoulder of the booking agent. The more obvious scene, of course, is when Hattori Hanzo&#8217;s steel is unsheathed for the first time. That&#8217;s Shisar, imprinted on that legendary blade.<br \/>\nOn that note, I am looking forward to part 2. I think I may have to brave first night crowds tomorrow, because I don&#8217;t want to wait to see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These dogs are Shisar, the guardians of the Ryukyu (Okinawan) Islands. You see them all over the place in Okinawa, on keychains, t-shirts, and anything else that is sold on the Kokusai-dori (the main tourist street in Naha). Of all of the Shisar statues that I encountered, I especially like these. They remind me of &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/04\/23\/my-dog-shisar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}