{"id":916,"date":"2011-02-28T13:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T04:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:09:14","slug":"hiko-nyan-runner-at-tokyo-marathon-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/hiko-nyan-runner-at-tokyo-marathon-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiko-nyan runner at Tokyo Marathon 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tm584-20110227_6260.jpg\" alt=\"Hiko-nyan runner\" class=\"wp-image-927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tm584-20110227_6260.jpg 267w, https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/tm584-20110227_6260-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hiko-nyan runner at 2011 Tokyo Marathon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched and photographed the 5th Tokyo Marathon on Feb. 27, 2011 at Tokyo Big Sight. It was a warm, sunny day for over 33,000 runners chosen by lottery from among a staggering 330,000 applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were 106 runners from Shiga Prefecture. I saw two runners wearing <a href=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/hiko-nyan-now-appears-every-day-at-hikone-castle\/\">Hiko-nyan<\/a> and I got a picture of one of them. Too bad he was running on the other side of where I was standing. Couldn&#8217;t get a clearer shot. The other runner had a small Hiko-nyan doll on his cap. Unfortunately, I missed photographing him since I was shooting another scene with a video camera. This is the first time I saw Hiko-nyan at the Tokyo Marathon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=822\" target=\"_self\">More 2011 Tokyo Marathon photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched and photographed the 5th Tokyo Marathon on Feb. 27, 2011 at Tokyo Big Sight. It was a warm, sunny day for over 33,000 runners chosen by lottery from among a staggering 330,000 applicants. There were 106 runners from&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter","category-hikone","category-shigabrand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9642,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/9642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}