{"id":34771,"date":"2022-11-04T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34771"},"modified":"2022-11-04T18:14:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:14:38","slug":"heritage-worker-crashes-accidentally-into-protected-ancient-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=34771","title":{"rendered":"Heritage worker crashes accidentally into protected ancient toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1287907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34772\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TofukujiHondo_Japan_041122_Plus_Minus_CommonsWikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan&#8217;s cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country&#8217;s oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration only Tofukuji, Kyoto &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1287907\">Photo by PlusMinus, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>The communal loo at Tofukuji in Kyoto dates back to the 15th century and is designated an important cultural asset.<\/p>\n<p>Its ancient door was ruined after the employee hit the gas without realising the car was in reverse\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured and the actual latrines inside remained intact.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed man, who works at the Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association, called police soon after the crash\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-63304390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man whose job it is to help preserve Japan&#8217;s cultural heritage has accidentally smashed his car into the country&#8217;s oldest toilet at a centuries-old Buddhist temple. image: for illustration only Tofukuji, Kyoto &#8211; Photo by PlusMinus, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34806,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions\/34806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}