{"id":47,"date":"2002-06-12T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2002-06-12T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=47"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T12:00:00","slug":"maneki-neko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2002\/06\/12\/maneki-neko\/","title":{"rendered":"Maneki Neko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Japanese the cat with raised paw is called &#8220;maneki neko&#8221; (&#8220;beckoning cat&#8221;). In the West, we beckon people by holding the hand with palm facing up and moving the fingers (as popularised by Neo and Morpheus in the <cite>Matrix<\/cite> films). In Japan, people beckon by holding the palm facing down or forwards (like the cat) so it looks as if they&#8217;re waving. I wonder if the Chinese do the same?<\/p>\n<p>Note that <cite>maneki neko<\/cite> should <em>not<\/em> be confused with <cite>Hello Kitty<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japanese the cat with raised paw is called &#8220;maneki neko&#8221; (&#8220;beckoning cat&#8221;). In the West, we beckon people by holding the hand with palm facing up and moving the fingers (as popularised by Neo and Morpheus in the Matrix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2002\/06\/12\/maneki-neko\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}