{"id":393989,"date":"2025-09-03T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393989\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:32:11","slug":"londons-calling-and-sumos-top-division-along-with-hello-kitty-are-ready-to-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393989\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s calling and sumo\u2019s top division \u2014 along with Hello Kitty \u2014 are ready to answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quality of a sumo wrestler\u2019s life is determined to a large extent by his position on the banzuke.<\/p>\n<p>Often described as a living document, the banzuke is an ever-changing ranking list, written in traditional calligraphy, that contains the names of every rikishi, from veteran, highly decorated yokozuna to teenagers who are just getting their careers started.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the strict hierarchical world that is Japan\u2019s national sport, banzuke position is everything, with clothing, footwear, chores, responsibilities, free time and salary all linked to how high \u2014 or low \u2014 a rikishi is ranked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quality of a sumo wrestler\u2019s life is determined to a large extent by his position on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[136284,748,393,4884,136283,257,15689,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-393989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-autumn-grand-sumo-tournament","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-japan-sumo-association","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-u-k","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115139205202360428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}