{"id":71853,"date":"2016-03-25T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T07:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=71562"},"modified":"2016-04-11T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:19:37","slug":"hikosan-jingu-shrine-gojinkosai","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/hikosan-jingu-shrine-gojinkosai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikosan Jingu Shrine Gojinkosai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of this festival, three portable shrines are carried 900 steps (200 m) down Mt. Hikosan. On the second, priests rush them back up to cheering crowds. This <em>gojinkosai<\/em> (ritual transfer of a god\u2019s body away from its main shrine) dates back to when asceticism was popular in the area. Lion dances too!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/04-Hikosan-Jingu-Gojinkosai-e1458889827493.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"04 - Hikosan Jingu Gojinkosai\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71564\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 4\/9 (Sat.) ~ 4\/10 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 14:00~<br \/>\n\u2022 Free<br \/>\n\u2022 Hikosan Jingu Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 1 Hikosan, Soeda-machi, Tagawa-gun, Fukuoka<br \/>\n\u2022 0947-85-0001<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/hikosanjingu.or.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hikosanjingu.or.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally published in Fukuoka Now Magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn-208-web\" target=\"_blank\">fn208<\/a>, Apr. 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of this festival, three portable shrines are carried 900 steps (200 m) down Mt. Hikosan. On the second, priests rush them back up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26750,"featured_media":71564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-71853","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\/71853","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\/26750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}