{"id":8024,"date":"2016-12-15T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T00:44:50","slug":"rock-paper-holy-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/15\/rock-paper-holy-shit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock, Paper, Holy Shit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/japans-most-intense-rock-paper-scissors-competition-1790085868\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Kotaku<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Japan&#8217;s Most Intense Rock, Paper, Scissors Competition<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kinja.com\/brianashcraft\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Ashcraft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/qhxegkwh2sbj0my6tiey.gif\" width=\"480\" \/><em>[GIF via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TcuPqBwifTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nippon Channel<\/em><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and crying.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, members of idol group AKB48 and its sister groups have duked it out in paper-rock-scissors competitions or \u201cjanken taikai\u201d in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanken\u201d means paper-rock-scissors (\u201ctaikai\u201d means \u201ctournament\u201d), and while I played this growing up in the U.S., I certainly never did as much as Japanese people do. Even grown-ups play janken, using it to decide trivial things among friends that people in the U.S. might decide with a coin toss.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/japans-most-intense-rock-paper-scissors-competition-1790085868\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Kotaku.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Kotaku Japan&#8217;s Most Intense Rock, Paper, Scissors Competition by\u00a0Brian Ashcraft [GIF via\u00a0Nippon Channel] Leave it to Japan to make a friendly game of rock-paper-scissors into an event, complete with cosplay, cheering, and crying. Since 2010, members of idol group AKB48 and its sister groups have duked it out in paper-rock-scissors competitions or \u201cjanken taikai\u201d [&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":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024","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=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}