{"id":231,"date":"2004-06-10T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/higothai\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T19:24:56","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T19:24:56","slug":"higothai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/10\/higothai\/","title":{"rendered":"Higothai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"higothaibee.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/higothaibee.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"418\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the Higothai flower, the flower of Ubuyama village. As some of you may know I used to hate bees. They used to sting me quite often. even though I avoided them, they would regularly land on me and jab me with their stingers. One time, I had to take a Tae Kwon Do orange belt test even though I had been stung on the sole of my foot- I passed, but it hurt like hell. I have since overcome my fear, and so I was able to get really close to this one.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"higothai.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/higothai.jpg\" width=\"447\" height=\"425\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe Higothai is a symbol, representing the friendship that has been created between Ubuyama and Thailand, thanks to the bi-yearly exchange program at the Chugakko. Supposedly, Ubuyama is one of the few places where the Higothai grows. I think the Higothai is a pretty fitting symbol, as the Thai students&#8217; uniforms are a similar shade of purple.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"higothaireplica.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/archives\/higothaireplica.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"576\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis model of a Higothai is just so ugly, I had to take a picture. It looks like it could blow a hole in the side of a battleship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Higothai flower, the flower of Ubuyama village. As some of you may know I used to hate bees. They used to sting me quite often. even though I avoided them, they would regularly land on me and jab me with their stingers. One time, I had to take a Tae Kwon Do &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/06\/10\/higothai\/\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}