{"id":2530,"date":"2008-04-25T08:27:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T08:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/25\/shinto-love-god\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T08:27:35","slug":"shinto-love-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/25\/shinto-love-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinto Love God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kicking myself for not using this as a filler post a couple of weeks back when it was Easter:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-f8d3cda7ac3a758b38495c6558187fda-sm_love_god.jpg\" alt=\"i-f8d3cda7ac3a758b38495c6558187fda-sm_love_god.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is from one of the shrines at Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto&#8211; the temple with the gigantic wooden platform looking out over the city. The sign at the lower right identifies it:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This stuatue is called &#8220;okuninushino-mikoto.&#8221;<br \/>\nA Japanese god who is in charge of love and good matches<br \/>\nThe rabbit beside him is a messenger of the god.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emmy grumbles that the divine rabbit has a certain <cite>Donnie Darko<\/cite> quality to it, but I think she&#8217;s just jealous that she doesn&#8217;t have a four-foot-high bunny to play with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m kicking myself for not using this as a filler post a couple of weeks back when it was Easter: This is from one of the shrines at Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto&#8211; the temple with the gigantic wooden platform looking out over the city. The sign at the lower right identifies it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}