{"id":818,"date":"2006-12-12T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=818"},"modified":"2006-12-12T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T14:00:06","slug":"anime-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Anime Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">Steven<\/a> has a post up on the whole deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/Rabbi%20Elazar%20Bogomilsky%20\">Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky<\/a>, who has filed suit to be permitted to put up a menorah next to a Christmas display, and&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Oh what&#8217;s the use?  It&#8217;s like part of the holiday now.  Every year we turn on the TV and it&#8217;s either playing  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0038650\/\">It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/a> or a story about another Christmas-tree lawsuit.  The whole thing is so clich&eacute; that even the jokes about how clich&eacute; it is have themselves become clich&eacute;.<\/p>\n<p>But Steven suggests:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">If Ron Karenga can do it, so can I. The newly-formed Otaku religion celebrates Anime Day on December 25. It&#8217;s a jenn-you-wine traditional Japanese holiday (that I just made up) which otaku celebrate by putting up life-sized cardboard cutouts of Sailor Moon. We demand that Usagi be placed next to Rabbi Bogomilsky&#8217;s menorah, and if they won&#8217;t do that then we&#8217;ll sue.<\/div>\n<p>That is something with which I am down.   Er. Anime Day. Not the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><table width='300'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p8eDq5TN8ng'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/salsf_intro5.jpg' class='insetimage' width='300' alt='Sugar, A Little Snow Fairy' title='Sugar, A Little Snow Fairy'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>You know what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven has a post up on the whole deal with Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, who has filed suit to be permitted to put up a menorah next to a Christmas display, and&#8230; Oh what&#8217;s the use? It&#8217;s like part of the holiday now. Every year we turn on the TV and it&#8217;s either playing It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}