{"id":10653,"date":"2010-09-29T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2010-09-29T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:41:32","slug":"festivals-in-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=10653","title":{"rendered":"Festivals in Kyoto ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/JidaiMatsuri-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10654\" title=\"JidaiMatsuri\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/JidaiMatsuri-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"JidaiMatsuri\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>Kyoto is well known for its traditional festivals which have been held for over 1000 years and are a major tourist attraction. The first is the <strong>Aoi Matsuri<\/strong> on May 15. Two months later (July 1 to 31) is the <strong>Gion Matsuri<\/strong> known as one of the 3 great festivals of Japan, culminating in a massive parade on July 17. Kyoto marks the<strong> Bon Festival <\/strong>with the Gozan Okuribi, lighting fires on mountains to guide the spirits home (August 16). <strong>The October 22 Jidai Matsuri<\/strong>, Festival of the Ages, celebrates Kyoto&#8217;s illustrious past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto is well known for its traditional festivals which have been held for over 1000 years and are a major tourist attraction. The first is the Aoi Matsuri on May 15. Two months later (July 1 to 31) is the Gion Matsuri known as one of the 3 great festivals of Japan, culminating in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,1497],"tags":[1495,1496,1498,1499,1500],"class_list":["post-10653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-festival","tag-aoi-matsuri","tag-bon-festival","tag-gion-matsuri","tag-kyoto","tag-the-october-22-jidai-matsuri","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}