{"id":150168,"date":"2015-06-12T17:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/12\/backstageleft-baratheas-phoenixflorid\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:29:21","slug":"backstageleft-baratheas-phoenixflorid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/12\/backstageleft-baratheas-phoenixflorid\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-150168 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/12\/backstageleft-baratheas-phoenixflorid\/attachment\/150169\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_ndytfxS11k1qkvbwso1_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_ndytfxS11k1qkvbwso1_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_ndytfxS11k1qkvbwso1_500-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_ndytfxS11k1qkvbwso1_500-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_ndytfxS11k1qkvbwso1_500.png 500w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backstageleft.tumblr.com\/post\/119136821279\/baratheas-phoenixflorid-housetohalf\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">backstageleft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baratheas.tumblr.com\/post\/101820570502\/phoenixflorid-housetohalf-did-you-kno\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">baratheas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phoenixflorid.tumblr.com\/post\/101180828890\/housetohalf-did-you-kno-ninjas-dont-wear\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">phoenixflorid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housetohalf.tumblr.com\/post\/100941054137\/did-you-kno-ninjas-dont-wear-black-they-used\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">housetohalf<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/didyouknowblog.com\/post\/100937353664\/ninjas-dont-wear-black-they-used-to-disguise\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">did-you-kno<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ninjas don\u2019t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn\u2019t the best strategy for blending in. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninja#Outerwear\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason we equate the above image with a ninja comes from Kabuki theatre. Within Kabuki theatre there\u2019s a convention of having Kuroko (stage hands) dress in all black (with a full face covering) and move around among the costumed actors in full view, moving scenery, props and costumes. In a similar way, Bunraku puppeteers dress in all black, and only the lead puppeteer\u2019s face would be uncovered.\u00a0The audience knew to ignore these people and focus on the actors, and to only see that the scene was \u201cmagically\u201d changing. So when a play called for a ninja assassin to jump out of nowhere and kill someone, the easiest way to create the surprise reveal was to disguise the ninja in the all black garb of the Kuroko and to remove the face covering and start acting at the last second. This would shock the audience, who were conditioned to\u00a0not focus on them. Pretty cool, yeah?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\nWHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT \u201cSTAGE NINJA\u201d WAS JUST A CUTE THEATER TERM FOR CREW. THERE WERE LITERALLY GOD DAMN STAGE NINJAS\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AS A FORMER STAGE NINJA I CAN CONFIRM THIS IS BOTH A THING AND AWESOME.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the best and most delightful piece of information.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>backstageleft: baratheas: phoenixflorid: housetohalf: did-you-kno: Ninjas don\u2019t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn\u2019t the best strategy for blending in. Source But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/06\/12\/backstageleft-baratheas-phoenixflorid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2057,17130,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150170,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150168\/revisions\/150170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}