{"id":465,"date":"2006-08-09T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2006-08-09T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T16:22:29","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Did you know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv-aichi.co.jp\/cosplay2006\/e\/index.html\">World Cosplay Summit<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/alemanha_grupo_01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosplay\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Cosplay <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">(<\/span><span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\" xml:lang=\"ja\" lang=\"ja\">????<\/span><span class=\"t_nihongo_comma\" style=\"display: none;\">,<\/span> <i><span class=\"t_nihongo_romaji\">kosupure<\/span><\/i><span class=\"t_nihongo_help\"><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Japanese\" title=\"Help:Japanese\"><span class=\"t_nihongo_icon\" style=\"padding: 0pt 0.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 80%; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;\">?<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/span>), a contraction (or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portmanteau\" title=\"Portmanteau\">portmanteau<\/a>) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_language\" title=\"English language\">English<\/a> words &#8220;costume&#8221; and &#8220;play&#8221;, is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" title=\"Japan\">Japanese<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subculture\" title=\"Subculture\">subculture<\/a> centered on dressing as characters from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manga\" title=\"Manga\">manga<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anime\" title=\"Anime\">anime<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokusatsu\" title=\"Tokusatsu\">tokusatsu<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Video_games\" title=\"Video games\">video games<\/a>, and, less commonly, Japanese live action <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Television\" title=\"Television\">television<\/a> shows, fantasy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film\" title=\"Film\">movies<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J-pop\" title=\"J-pop\">Japanese pop music<\/a> bands. However, in some circles, &#8220;cosplay&#8221; has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there&#8217;s a World Cosplay Summit? From Wikipedia: Cosplay (????, kosupure?), a contraction (or portmanteau) of the English words &#8220;costume&#8221; and &#8220;play&#8221;, is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, or Japanese pop music &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=465\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-7v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}