{"id":243,"date":"2016-01-05T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2021-01-09T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T06:04:45","slug":"ryuu-masaki-set-free-by-retirement-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/05\/ryuu-masaki-set-free-by-retirement-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuu Masaki: \u201cSet free\u201d by retirement announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article about Ryuu Masaki&#8217;s retirement announcement was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daily.co.jp\/newsflash\/gossip\/2016\/01\/03\/0008692775.shtml?\">Daily Sports Online on January 3, 2016.<\/a> (The article title may seem not to entirely fit the content, as it references a section of the interview that was not quoted in the article.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ryuu Masaki: \u201cSet free\u201d by retirement announcement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takarazuka Revue Moon Troupe Top Star Ryuu Masaki, who will be retiring on September 4th of this year at the Tokyo Grand Theatre, agreed to an interview at the Tokyo opening of the Moon Troupe performance \u201cManon\u201d which concludes performances on February 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is her first Tokyo performance since announcing her intent to retire on December 15th of last year. At the last performance of \u201cManon\u201d in Takarazuka, all her colleagues who she had already informed of her retirement \u201cembraced me without a word. It hurt so much it was hard to breathe, but I felt like I had been set free,\u201d she said with a refreshed expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the announcement, \u201cthe way the other members of the troupe look at me is even warmer than before. I\u2019m really happy,\u201d she said with gratitude. Regarding the performance, she said firmly \u201cI want to go back to and strengthen my original resolution to give it my all each day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article about Ryuu Masaki&#8217;s retirement announcement was published by Daily Sports Online on January 3, 2016. (The article title may seem not to entirely fit the content, as it references a section of the interview that was not quoted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/05\/ryuu-masaki-set-free-by-retirement-announcement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[13,360,23],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}