{"id":71079,"date":"2018-12-12T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/12\/yokozuna-controversies-and-a-dump-truck-a-sumo-history-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:58:59","slug":"yokozuna-controversies-and-a-dump-truck-a-sumo-history-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=71079","title":{"rendered":"Yokozuna, controversies and a &#039;Dump Truck&#039;: a sumo history \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of sumo date back 2,000 years and it was from the 17th century that saw its rise as a spectator sport. However, viewing figures and homegrown participants have declined over the past two decades with the sport also under the spotlight due to a number of controversies including a lack of women\u2019s access Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/gallery\/2018\/dec\/12\/yokozuna-controversies-and-a-dump-truck-a-sumo-history-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\">Yokozuna, controversies and a &#039;Dump Truck&#039;: a sumo history \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of sumo date back 2,000 years and it was from the 17th century that saw its rise as a spectator sport. However, viewing figures and homegrown participants have declined over the past two decades with the sport also under the spotlight due to a number of controversies including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}