{"id":62714,"date":"2024-03-20T23:10:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/colonel-sanders-statue-in-japan-disposed-of-to-break-baseball-curse"},"modified":"2024-03-20T23:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:10:39","slug":"japanese-baseball-fans-bid-farewell-to-lucky-charm-colonel-sanders-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62714","title":{"rendered":"Japanese baseball fans bid farewell to \u2018lucky charm\u2019 Colonel Sanders statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effigy recovered in 2009 after being thrown into Osaka river by jubilant fans but is in poor state and will be disposed of<\/p>\n<p>A plastic statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken\u2019s founder, Colonel Sanders, that was a lucky charm for superstitious Japanese baseball fans has been \u201cdisposed of\u201d 15 years after being dredged out of an Osaka river.<\/p>\n<p>Jubilant supporters of Osaka\u2019s Hanshin Tigers, known for being Japan\u2019s most passionate baseball fans, flung the effigy \u2013 and themselves \u2013 into the Dotonbori River in 1985 after winning Japan\u2019s version of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/colonel-sanders-statue-in-japan-disposed-of-to-break-baseball-curse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effigy recovered in 2009 after being thrown into Osaka river by jubilant fans but is in poor state and will be disposed ofA plastic statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken\u2019s founder, Colonel Sanders, that was a lucky charm for superstitious Japanese baseball &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"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-62714","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\/62714","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\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62715,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62714\/revisions\/62715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}