{"id":86400,"date":"2017-04-25T18:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=86400&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-06-26T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T09:14:00","slug":"shimenawa-festival-sakurai-jinja-shrine","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/shimenawa-festival-sakurai-jinja-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimenawa Festival at Sakurai Jinja Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main tourism spots in the Itoshima region is Meoto-iwa in Futamigaura. Every year, a ceremony is held on one Sunday in late April ~ May to replace the <em>shimenawa<\/em> (straw garland) that encircles Meoto-iwa. At 30 m long and weighing 1 tonne, the Shimenawa will require 50 men to hang it over the rock.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86327\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sakura-jinja-rope.jpg?resize=640%2C479\" alt=\"sakura jinja rope\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sakura-jinja-rope.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sakura-jinja-rope.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 4\/29 (Sat.)<br \/>\n\u2022 08:00~, shimenawa replacement: 16:00~ *depends on tides<br \/>\n\u2022 Sakurai Jinja Shrine<br \/>\n\u2022 4227 Shima Sakurai, Itoshima, Fukuoka<br \/>\n\u2022 092-327-0317 (Sakurai Jinja Shrine)<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/sakuraijinja.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/sakuraijinja.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sakuraijinja\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sakuraijinja\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main tourism spots in the Itoshima region is Meoto-iwa in Futamigaura. Every year, a ceremony is held on one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26469,"featured_media":86327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5112],"class_list":["post-86400","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-festival","location-itoshima","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/86400","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\/26469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}