{"id":11205,"date":"2010-10-24T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=11205"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:17:40","slug":"sunday-fun-sumo-wrestling-now-for-women-with-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/sunday-fun-sumo-wrestling-now-for-women-with-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Fun: Sumo Wrestling Now For Women (With Pictures)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really not much to say here. <em>Really <\/em>not much. Is this right?<\/p>\n<p>From the NY Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OSAKA, Japan \u201d\u201d For years, promoters of sumo have been pushing for the sport\u2018s inclusion in the Olympic Games. To get there, the International Sumo Federation has thrown its weight behind a form of the game that would offend purists and surprise most everyone else: women\u2018s sumo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sumo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11206 aligncenter\" title=\"sumo1\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sumo1-610x351-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the International Olympic Committee declared in 1994 that single-sex sports could no longer qualify as candidates for the Games, that was enough to turn tradition that featured giant men with topknots shoving each other in a ring on its head. Since then, sumo has been coming into its own internationally as an equal opportunity sport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Such a radical change to Japan\u2018s ancient national sport did not come easy, and the initial push came from outside the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sumo2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11207 aligncenter\" title=\"sumo2\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sumo2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really not much to say here. Really not much. Is this right? From the NY Times: OSAKA, Japan \u201d\u201d For years, promoters of sumo have been pushing for the sport\u2018s inclusion in the Olympic Games. To get there, the International Sumo Federation has thrown its weight behind a form of the game that would offend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}