{"id":8203,"date":"2026-09-18T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:50:05","slug":"statue-of-hachiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/statue-of-hachiko\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Hachik\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7255.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7255.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7255-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Takeshi And\u014d, <em>Statue of Hachik\u014d<\/em>, 1948<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2547,2545,2546],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-art","tag-takeshi-ando","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-2026"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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