{"id":1325,"date":"2019-08-01T09:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2019-10-30T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T04:25:52","slug":"%e7%a5%87%e5%9c%92%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a%e3%80%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/en\/info\/%e7%a5%87%e5%9c%92%e7%a5%ad%e3%82%8a%e3%80%80\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gion Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gion Festival goes on all July in Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival started 1150 years ago when\u00a0Japan was plagued with natural disasters and epidemic disease.\u00a0 People believed that these disasters were caused by evil sprits of people who were killed or died\u00a0in unfortunate circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The god of Yasaka Shrine were carried to downtown Kyoto in order to calm down those evel spirits. Also people in downtown supported \u00a0to collect evel sprits by building Yama-hoko floats and performing music and dance.<\/p>\n<p>Each\u00a0yama-hokos, 33 in total, have each charactors and stories. This\u00a0Japanese tea cup\u00a0with the design of Houka-boko, one of yama-hokos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gion Festival goes on all July in Kyoto. The Festival started 1150 years ago when\u00a0Japan was plagued with natural disasters and epidemic disease.\u00a0 People believed that these disasters were caused by evil sprits of people who were killed or died\u00a0in unfortunate circumstances. The god of Yasaka Shrine were carried to downtown Kyoto in order [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1319"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakuwaku-kyoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}