{"id":21090,"date":"2025-03-20T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21090"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:59:42","slug":"cats-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21090","title":{"rendered":"Cats of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A1&#8217;s new game is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/mar\/19\/pushing-buttons-assassins-creed-shadows-ubisoft\"><em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows<\/em><\/a>, set in 16th century Japan. There are samurai, ronin, cherry blossom, lords and peasants&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;and cats!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 600px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-21090-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" loop=\"1\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/acscat.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/acscat.mp4\">https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/acscat.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Dogs too, but you can&#8217;t have everything.<br \/>\nAddendum: A2 noticed the unusual tail &#8212; this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_Bobtail\">Japanese bobtail<\/a>. According to a source of the time, &#8220;It has no mind to hunt for rats and mice but just wants to be carried and stroked by women.&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A1&#8217;s new game is Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows, set in 16th century Japan. There are samurai, ronin, cherry blossom, lords and peasants&#8230; &#8230;and cats! Dogs too, but you can&#8217;t have everything. Addendum: A2 noticed the unusual tail &#8212; this is a Japanese bobtail. According to a source of the time, &#8220;It has no mind to hunt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=21090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cats of Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[25,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21104,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21090\/revisions\/21104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}