{"id":24263,"date":"2014-08-29T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T05:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24263"},"modified":"2014-09-28T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T07:48:31","slug":"hello-kitty-is-not-a-cat-says-sanrio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/29\/hello-kitty-is-not-a-cat-says-sanrio\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Kitty is not a cat, says Sanrio"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24267\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hello_kitty_character_portrait.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24267\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hello_kitty_character_portrait-237x300.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hello_kitty_character_portrait-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Hello_kitty_character_portrait.png 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Just recently, an announcement from Japanese brand Sanrio made rounds in social media. According to Sanrio, Hello Kitty is not a cat.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Yano, an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii, is currently curating a Hello Kitty exhibit to be held at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>She shared that Sanrio corrected the texts of the script which she will use for the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was corrected \u2014 very firmly,\u201d she told the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/miranda\/la-et-cam-hello-kitty-in-los-angeles-not-a-cat-20140826-column.html#page=1\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She\u2019s a cartoon character.\u00a0She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She\u2019s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature.\u00a0She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it\u2019s called\u00a0Charmmy Kitty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, Hello Kitty is a British girl named \u201cKitty White\u201d and has her own fair share of personal story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Just recently, an announcement from Japanese brand Sanrio made rounds in social media. According to Sanrio, Hello Kitty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7265],"tags":[7621,7622],"class_list":["post-24263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-weird","tag-hello-kitty","tag-sanrio","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}