{"id":253,"date":"2015-10-09T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T18:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenjacksonart.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2018-06-04T19:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:31:40","slug":"kappa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Kappa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week’s Monster comes to us from the rich history of Japan. \u00a0Let’s be real; Japan has some interesting creatures. \u00a0Kappa is no exception. \u00a0They are said to be very skilled wrestlers. \u00a0They will use this skill to drag victims into the water and drown them. \u00a0Parents warn their children not to get too close to rivers and lakes or else a kappa might get them. \u00a0Kappa aren’t completely bad though. \u00a0They are obsessive when it comes to politeness. \u00a0It is told that if you are to encounter a kappa, you should bow to it. \u00a0In turn, the kappa will bow in return and in doing so, spill the water from the indent on the top of its head. \u00a0Without the water from its river of origin, it will freeze in this position. \u00a0If you take pity on them and refill this indent, they will reanimate and devote themselves to repaying you. \u00a0Another strategy is to present them with a cucumber; their favorite food. \u00a0Although, I don’t know too many people that just walk around with a cucumber…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Kappa This week’s Monster comes to us from the rich history of Japan. \u00a0Let’s be real; Japan has some interesting creatures. \u00a0Kappa is no exception. \u00a0They are said to be very skilled wrestlers. \u00a0They will use this skill to drag victims into the water and drown them. \u00a0Parents warn their children not to get...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[177,200,199,173,169,201],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-monster","tag-creature","tag-japan","tag-kappa","tag-monster","tag-myth","tag-river","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}