{"id":147642,"date":"2022-07-19T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=147642&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-07-19T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:36:52","slug":"omuta-daijayama-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/omuta-daijayama-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Omuta Daijayama Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daija means \u201clarge snake\u201d, and at this festival floats in the image of snakes (10-meter long, 5-meter tall and weighing 3 tons) will be paraded around town. Placing a child inside the mouth of a Daija supposedly grants sound health for one year. It\u2019s better if the child cries! Don\u2019t miss the group dance of 10,000 people on Jul. 23 (17:50) and, on Jul. 24 18:30~21:30, watch out for the finale when the Daija floats come together in a marvelous parade.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fn_omura-daijayama-festival_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Omuta Daijayama Festival, \u304a\u304a\u3080\u305f\u5927\u86c7\u5c71\u796d\u308a\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fn_omura-daijayama-festival_2022_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fn_omura-daijayama-festival_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fn_omura-daijayama-festival_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fn_omura-daijayama-festival_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 7\/23 (Sat.), 7\/24 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Free viewing<br \/>\n\u2022 Taisho-machi Festival Hiroba<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/ZPZvZh1DvXcBpoPW9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taishomach-dori, Omuta City, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omuta-daijayama.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.omuta-daijayama.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daija means \u201clarge snake\u201d, and at this festival floats in the image of snakes (10-meter long, 5-meter tall and weighing 3 tons) will be paraded around town. Placing a child inside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":147643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-147642","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/147642","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}