{"id":6919,"date":"2012-11-24T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2012-11-24T01:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T06:12:41","slug":"the-last-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-last-ninjas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Ninjas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112312_2307_TheLastNinj1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last surviving members of two of the most prominent ninja clans have decided that they won&#8217;t be taking on any prot\u00e9g\u00e9s. This means that we&#8217;ll soon see the last ninjas pass away. Mariko Oi had the opportunity to sit with them and discuss their fading art. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ninja missions were so secret that there are few official documents that detail their adventures. Instead their methods were passed from one generation to the next through word of mouth.<\/li>\n<li>Ninjas rarely fought. Their tactics were focused on surveillance and espionage. Actual fights were a last resort and were looked down upon.<\/li>\n<li>They used bamboo water floats that allowed them to cross bodies of water in a walking motion.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of wearing pure black \u2013 which stands out in the night \u2013 ninjas preferred to dye their clothes a deep navy blue to better blend in with their surroundings<\/li>\n<li>Being a Ninja was a part-time job. Ninjas spent most of their time at mundane day jobs such as farming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other myths about Ninjas, what the last ninjas do with their free time, and &#8220;western ninja-inspired nonsense&#8221; over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20135674\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20135674\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last surviving members of two of the most prominent ninja clans have decided that they won&#8217;t be taking on any prot\u00e9g\u00e9s. This means that we&#8217;ll soon see the last ninjas pass away. Mariko Oi had the opportunity to sit with them and discuss their fading art. Highlights include: Ninja missions were so secret that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112312_2307_TheLastNinj1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}