{"id":32116,"date":"2013-09-25T20:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=32116"},"modified":"2013-09-25T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T00:20:40","slug":"report-children-bitten-by-lion-parents-ecstatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/25\/report-children-bitten-by-lion-parents-ecstatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Children Bitten by Lion, Parent’s Ecstatic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Benjamin Martin<\/strong><\/a>, a JET from 2008-2013 in Okinawa<\/a>, publisher of the blog MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and author of the award-winning<\/a> YA fantasy series\u00a0<\/em>Samurai Awakening<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Tuttle).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"IMG_0710\"<\/a>Yes. This past week on Kume Island<\/a>, children were sent screaming as a single wild lion went rampaging through a peaceful neighborhood. Well, it was mostly peaceful. Since it was the full moon and August 15th of the Kyureki calendar, there were also a bunch of people around banging gongs and playing music. There were also some creepy Hacaburo running around egging the lion on. Warned in advance that something might be going on, I showed up with some local friends just after sunset with my camera ready. What I saw shocked me, and soon my former students were running for cover… behind me.<\/p>\n

By the end of the night no less than 5 children had been bitten. When asked, parents responded that they were overjoyed. One parent, while holding a screaming infant, smiled widely and talked about how smart he would be while neglecting to stop the lion from continuing its rampage.<\/p>\n

For more on this story, visit MoreThingsJapanese.com<\/a> for pictures and video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Benjamin Martin, a JET from 2008-2013 in Okinawa, publisher of the blog MoreThingsJapanese.com\u00a0and author of the award-winning YA fantasy series\u00a0Samurai Awakening\u00a0(Tuttle). Yes. This past week on Kume Island, children were sent screaming as a single wild lion went rampaging through a peaceful neighborhood. Well, it was mostly peaceful. Since it was the full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,9,368,20],"tags":[887,734,191,772,785,1383],"class_list":["post-32116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-humor","category-traveltourism","category-video","tag-887","tag-event","tag-japan","tag-more-things-japanese","tag-okinawa","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t