{"id":59638,"date":"2023-11-05T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/05\/osakas-baseball-underdogs-hope-one-more-win-will-lift-curse-of-kfc"},"modified":"2023-11-05T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:00:08","slug":"osakas-baseball-underdogs-hope-one-more-win-will-lift-curse-of-kfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59638","title":{"rendered":"Osaka\u2019s baseball underdogs hope one more win will lift curse of KFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the city have put the Hanshin Tigers\u2019 lack of success down to an unusual Colonel Sanders-based superstition, but it may be about to end<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Hanshin Tigers were proclaimed the best baseball team in Japan, their fans celebrated by hurling themselves into a canal and carrying out an \u201cabduction\u201d that many believe placed their team under a curse that has lasted almost four decades.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the sleeping giants of Japanese baseball were forced to wait another day for the chance to banish the jinx by winning their first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\" title=\"\">Japan<\/a> Series title since 1985, after a defeat to local rivals Orix Buffaloes ensured that the season\u2019s finale would go to a seventh and decisive game.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/05\/osakas-baseball-underdogs-hope-one-more-win-will-lift-curse-of-kfc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the city have put the Hanshin Tigers\u2019 lack of success down to an unusual Colonel Sanders-based superstition, but it may be about to endThe last time the Hanshin Tigers were proclaimed the best baseball team in Japan, their fans celebrated by hu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3012,88,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-baseball","category-japan","category-sport","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638\/revisions\/59639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}