{"id":4443,"date":"2016-11-29T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T05:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2016-11-29T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T05:51:11","slug":"request-for-donations-to-help-repair-spuddy-by-yasuko-homma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20161129_4443.html","title":{"rendered":"“Request for Donations to Help Repair Spuddy” by Yasuko Homma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spuddy Needs Your Help<\/h2>\n

Today, I’d like to let you know about a special member of the Kodo family who needs your help.<\/p>\n

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\nYamaimo-kun, nicknamed Spuddy in English due to his resemblance to a certain root vegetable, is one of the large taiko that lives at Sado Island Taiko Centre. He is one of two massive taiko at the Centre that were handmade by Kodo members. Yamaimo-kun and\u00a0his friend Butabana-chan, a.k.a Miss Piggy, have been working hard at our centre since 2007 when it opened and they were completed. They welcome everyone who wants to have a hit and have become the mascots\u00a0of our interactive facility.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter taking a beating almost every day for a decade, poor Spuddy now has holes in both of his heads. Shinchan-sensei has patched him up with small pieces of hide, but the bandages are only a temporary fix.<\/p>\n

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Since the beginning of the year, we have had a donation box at the Centre so that\u00a0visitors can\u00a0help us buy new heads for Spuddy. In eleven months, we have raised around 70,000 yen for his “treatment.”
\nSpuddy is a big boy and his heads are about 1.4m in diameter, so it will cost around 100,000 yen to fix him. We have decided to schedule this procedure during January when there are less visitors due to the cold winter season.<\/p>\n

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\nNow that winter is upon us, we have decided to try to raise the remaining funds required by asking for donations online.
\nIf you would like to help us mend Spuddy, please contact the Kodo Cultural Foundation for further details.\u00a0http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/foundation\/index_en.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you in advance for your kindness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spuddy Needs Your Help Today, I’d like to let you know about a special member of the Kodo family who needs your help. Yamaimo-kun, nicknamed Spuddy in English due to his resemblance to a certain root vegetable, is one of the large taiko that lives at Sado Island Taiko Centre. He is one of two massive taiko at the Centre that were handmade by Kodo members. Yamaimo-kun and\u00a0his friend Butabana-chan, a.k.a Miss Piggy, have been working hard at our centre since 2007 when it opened and they were completed. They welcome everyone who wants to have a hit and have become the mascots\u00a0of our interactive facility. After taking a beating … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,1],"tags":[95,61,299,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}