{"id":4267,"date":"2007-04-13T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/04\/13\/showmanship\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T16:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:47:51","slug":"showmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/showmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Showmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that this video is making the rounds again:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japan Maritime Self Defense Force &quot;Dance&quot;\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZjAXJaFydwM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s being called one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tank.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=ZGIyOWNhOTliNTkyYzQwNGQ2NGJiYzM5ZmZlM2NkZjU=\">&#8220;Worst Recruitings Ads Ever&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;m not so sure of that. To macho American eyes, the dancing sailors look ridiculous. However, these ads are for a Japanese audience, to whom military defense and entertainment apparently are a natural combination, if anime is any evidence. <i><b>Sakura Wars<\/b><\/i>, for instance, combines steampunk mecha with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takarazuka_Revue\">Takarazuka musicals<\/a>, and in <i><b>Idol Defense Force Hummingbird<\/b><\/i>, the air force is a branch of the music industry. In this context, this commercial makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that this video is making the rounds again: It&#8217;s being called one of the &#8220;Worst Recruitings Ads Ever&#8221;. I&#8217;m not so sure of that. To macho American eyes, the dancing sailors look ridiculous. However, these ads are for a Japanese audience, to whom military defense and entertainment apparently are a natural combination, if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/showmanship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Showmanship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-16P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175862,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/175862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}