{"id":4570,"date":"2016-10-17T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2016-10-17T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:46:42","slug":"kendo-protective-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/kendo-protective-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendo protective mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendo is one of Japan&#8217;s martial arts sports based on the two-handed sword fighting of the samurai.\u00a0 It has evolved into a system of mental and physical training using bamboo sticks.\u00a0This mask has been worn in many mock fights on the island of Okinawa. Its user would also have been protected by a uniform of quilted cloth panels with a sturdy chest protector and loose pants. What is so interesting about these masks (and those used in other sports) is that they also have the ability to intimidate the opponent. In this way they are not unlike many of the other masks we deal with on this website.\u00a0 1040<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4571\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1040-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-1040\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1040-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1040-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1040-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1040-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendo is one of Japan&#8217;s martial arts sports based on the two-handed sword fighting of the samurai.\u00a0 It has evolved into a system of mental and physical training using bamboo sticks.\u00a0This mask has been worn in many mock fights on the island of Okinawa. Its user would also have been protected by a uniform of quilted cloth panels with a sturdy chest protector and loose pants. What is so interesting about these masks (and those used in other sports) is that they also have the ability to intimidate the opponent. In this way they are not unlike many of the other masks we deal with on this website.\u00a0 1040<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4572,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}