{"id":3411,"date":"2012-05-26T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/ars-gratia-genitalis\/"},"modified":"2012-06-04T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T04:16:10","slug":"ars-gratia-genitalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/26\/ars-gratia-genitalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ars Gratia Genitalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20120525-japanese-man-cooks-serves-own-genitals\" target=\"_blank\">from France 24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Japanese man cooks, serves own genitals<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/files\/imagecache\/aef_ct_wire_image\/images\/afp\/photo_1337948003565-1-0.jpg\" alt=\"A Japanese chef prepares food at a cookery school in Paris. A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities.\" width=\"245\" height=\"205\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; border-width: 0px\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>AFP &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Mao Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed in March and kept them frozen for two months before dishing them out &#8212; seasoned and braised &#8212; to customers at an event hall on May 13, according to postings on his Twitter account and local police.<\/p>\n<p>Diners paid 20,000 yen ($250) for the plate with a portion of genitals. Pictures published on a website appeared to show the meal came complete with mushrooms and a parsley garnish.<\/p>\n<p>The painter, who is reportedly 22, said on Twitter the organ had been removed by a physician and certified to be free of infections.<\/p>\n<p>[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20120525-japanese-man-cooks-serves-own-genitals\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at France24.com<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from France 24 Japanese man cooks, serves own genitals AFP &#8211;\u00a0A Japanese artist cooked his own genitals and served them to five paying diners in Tokyo to cover the medical costs, in a bizarre act to raise awareness about sexual minorities. Mao Sugiyama had his penis and testicles surgically removed in March and kept them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}