{"id":871,"date":"2012-04-09T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/army-of-lucky-cats\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T23:32:00","slug":"army-of-lucky-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/army-of-lucky-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Army of Lucky Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[What an utterly charming installation piece. Boy, I&#8217;m sure glad *I* didn&#8217;t have to wire up all those damn cats. -egg]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/CtSpAxyNXKs\/army-of-lucky-cats.html\">Army of Lucky Cats<\/a>: <br \/>Boris Petrovsky writes: &#8220;The Maneki Neko (jap., literally Beckoning Cat; aka Lucky Cat, Money Cat) is a common Japanese figurine which is believed to bring luck, attract customers and bring prosperity. The Lucky Cat waves with the raised left paw and holds a historic coin in front of itself with the right one. The Lucky Cat as talisman and selling product is wide-spread in Asia and meanwhile almost all over the world.&#8221;<br \/>The video of Boris&#8217;s installation was shot and edited by Nina Martens; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/38796123\">view it at Vimeo<\/a> [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/scripts\/the-global-pursuit-of-happiness-boris-petrovskys-army-of-520-lucky-cats\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+creativeapplicationsnet+%28CreativeApplications.Net%29\">Creative Applications<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=2f79f7360e532a820a88cfa24561a134&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=2f79f7360e532a820a88cfa24561a134&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/CtSpAxyNXKs\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[What an utterly charming installation piece. Boy, I&#8217;m sure glad *I* didn&#8217;t have to wire up all those damn cats. -egg] Army of Lucky Cats: Boris Petrovsky writes: &#8220;The Maneki Neko (jap., literally Beckoning Cat; aka Lucky Cat, Money Cat) is a common Japanese figurine which is believed to bring luck, attract customers and bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-e3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}