{"id":23543,"date":"2008-02-06T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/02\/06\/otaku-cosplay-culture-makes-another-inroad-into-north-america\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T10:00:01","slug":"otaku-cosplay-culture-makes-another-inroad-into-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080206-01\/?p=23543","title":{"rendered":"Otaku cosplay culture makes another inroad into North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the summer of 2006, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/nationalpost\/news\/toronto\/story.html?id=a5e84804-fdb5-4343-ab62-f2dbf2dd202b\"> a Japanese-inspired <i>maid caf&eacute;<\/i> opened in Toronto<\/a>. Known as the <i>iMaid Cafe<\/i>, it offers Chinese food served by young Chinese women in French maid costumes, while Japanese pop music plays in the background. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-JwPTlEiWYY\"> Owner Aaron Wang explains the concept<\/a> to Canadian television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2006, a Japanese-inspired maid caf&eacute; opened in Toronto. Known as the iMaid Cafe, it offers Chinese food served by young Chinese women in French maid costumes, while Japanese pop music plays in the background. Owner Aaron Wang explains the concept to Canadian television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In the summer of 2006, a Japanese-inspired maid caf&eacute; opened in Toronto. Known as the iMaid Cafe, it offers Chinese food served by young Chinese women in French maid costumes, while Japanese pop music plays in the background. Owner Aaron Wang explains the concept to Canadian television.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}