{"id":12816,"date":"2023-06-10T21:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T21:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2023-07-02T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T21:40:11","slug":"pokemon-pilfery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/10\/pokemon-pilfery\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Pilfery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-pokemon-card-crime-spree-jolts-japan-94b21fd2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Pok\u00e9mon-Card Crime Spree Jolts Japan<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The birthplace of Pok\u00e9mon battles a frenzy for characters such as Squirtle the turtle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/miho-inada\" target=\"_blank\">Miho Inada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-755590?width=700&amp;height=700\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>In the wee hours, thieves hacked through the shutters of CowCow Luca, Hosaka\u2019s store.\u00a0PHOTO:\u00a0COWCOW LUCA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TOKYO\u2014The brazen thieves hacked through the shutters of a shop in the suburbs here, smashed glass showcases and nabbed valuables before fleeing into the darkness of the wee hours. Their loot? Pieces of cardboard adorned with cute Japanese cartoon characters including Pikachu, a chubby mouse-like fellow, and Squirtle, a water-squirting turtle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought I was finished,\u201d recalls Kenta Hosaka, the 33-year-old owner of the shop who says his most expensive cards, together worth about $58,000, were all gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan has been staggered by a Pok\u00e9mon crime spree. Stores are now paying for banklike security to ward off villains who go to extraordinary lengths, even rappelling down the side of buildings, to plunder Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-pokemon-card-crime-spree-jolts-japan-94b21fd2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal A Pok\u00e9mon-Card Crime Spree Jolts Japan The birthplace of Pok\u00e9mon battles a frenzy for characters such as Squirtle the turtle By\u00a0Miho Inada TOKYO\u2014The brazen thieves hacked through the shutters of a shop in the suburbs here, smashed glass showcases and nabbed valuables before fleeing into the darkness of the wee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}