{"id":114100,"date":"2018-09-28T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=114100&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-09-28T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:03:19","slug":"hakata-okunchi-4","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/hakata-okunchi-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakata Okunchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This traditional festival, with 1,200 years of history, gives thanks to the gods for autumn\u2019s harvest. An ox-drawn carriage pulls an ornate <em>mikoshi<\/em> (divine palanquin\/portable shrine), while children wearing traditional <em>kimono<\/em> and <em>tachi-eboshi<\/em> (brimless headgear worn by court nobles) walk in a parade together with a marching band, starting at Kushida Shrine and weaving around the Hakata area. On Oct. 23 look forward to events including Gokokuhojo Market selling seasonal fish and vegetables (10:00~16:00), free <em>amazake<\/em> (10:00~16:00), Sentomyo (18:00~21:00) and <em>honosumo<\/em> ritual matches.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113827\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113827\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hakata-okunchi.jpg?resize=1400%2C934&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"934\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hakata-okunchi.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hakata-okunchi.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hakata-okunchi.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hakata-okunchi.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-113827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided by the City of Fukuoka<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 10\/23 (Tue.) ~ 10\/24 (Wed.)<br \/>\n\u2022 10\/23: Autumn Festival 11:00~, 10\/24: parade 14:00~<br \/>\n\u2022 Kushida Shrine and Hakata area<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"tel:092-291-2951\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">092-291-2951<\/a> (Kushida Shrine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This traditional festival, with 1,200 years of history, gives thanks to the gods for autumn\u2019s harvest. An ox-drawn carriage pulls an ornate <em>mikoshi<\/em> (divine palanquin\/portable shrine), while children wearing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":113827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-114100","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-hakata","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}