{"id":1240,"date":"2012-02-26T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T12:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:10:45","slug":"hiko-nyan-runners-at-tokyo-marathon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/hiko-nyan-runners-at-tokyo-marathon-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiko-nyan runners at Tokyo Marathon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120226_0539hikomarathon-500x391.jpg\" alt=\"Hiko-nyan runners at Tokyo Marathon 2012\" class=\"wp-image-1241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120226_0539hikomarathon-500x391.jpg 500w, https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120226_0539hikomarathon-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120226_0539hikomarathon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hiko-nyan runners at Tokyo Marathon 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The massive Tokyo Marathon was held on Feb. 26, 2012. Out of almost 300,000 applicants, about 36,000 lucky people got to run from 9:10 am to 4:10 pm. I was near the finish line and saw these two <a href=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/hiko-nyan-now-appears-every-day-at-hikone-castle\/\">Hiko-nyan<\/a> runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Being an Olympic year, this was an important race for the Japanese runners seeking to qualify for London. Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakebiwa-marathon.com\/index_e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Biwako Mainichi Marathon<\/a> to be held in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Otsu,_Shiga\">Otsu<\/a>, Shiga on March 4 will also be a crucial race as an Olympic qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The massive Tokyo Marathon was held on Feb. 26, 2012. Out of almost 300,000 applicants, about 36,000 lucky people got to run from 9:10 am to 4:10 pm. I was near the finish line and saw these two Hiko-nyan runners&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,41,57,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter","category-shigabrand","category-shigapeople","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9643,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/9643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}