{"id":50415,"date":"2021-03-20T20:46:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=50415"},"modified":"2021-03-20T21:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T21:03:55","slug":"the-jinmenken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-jinmenken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jinmenken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twas an eerie darkness<br \/>\nIn old Japan<br \/>\nGlazed eyes tired mind<br \/>\nAnd  I began<br \/>\nTo imagine things<br \/>\nMagically they<br \/>\nLooked back at us<br \/>\nLike wearisome fae<\/p>\n<p>All Seemed surprised<br \/>\nBy us<br \/>\nAnd one did say<br \/>\nLeave us  do<br \/>\nWe have no truck<br \/>\nWith the likes of you <\/p>\n<p>With pluckiness<br \/>\nA human face<br \/>\nThe Jinmenken<br \/>\nThe body of a hound<br \/>\nBut Of which race<\/p>\n<p>A macaque perhaps<br \/>\nPray tell<br \/>\nWhat had we found<br \/>\nA demon could it yet be real<br \/>\nThe eternal light<br \/>\nDid now reveal<\/p>\n<p>A frightening unearthly<br \/>\nSight<br \/>\nIts eyes a gleaming<br \/>\nThrough the night<br \/>\nA human face<br \/>\nThere was no doubt<br \/>\nAnd a dog like body<br \/>\nIt did flout<\/p>\n<p>ishizuca Hokaishi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twas an eerie darkness In old Japan Glazed eyes tired mind And I began To imagine things Magically they Looked back at us Like wearisome fae All Seemed surprised By us And one did say Leave us do We have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-jinmenken\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,451,107,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-in-art","category-animism","category-dogs","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50415"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50417,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions\/50417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}