{"id":132444,"date":"2020-05-29T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T07:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=132444&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-05-29T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T07:41:01","slug":"saga-goes-bananas","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/saga-goes-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Saga Goes Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first harvest of \u2018Kami Banana\u2019 (God Bananas) in Miyaki Town, Saga, took place on May 27. The town has been working to develop a new specialty fruit, in collaboration with a Kagoshima-based company. Amongst approximately 400 banana trees, some grew to as high as three-meters inside a special hothouse. The organic bananas with edible peels will be partially processed for use in making beer and ice cream. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/lnews\/saga\/20200528\/5080005847.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NHK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saga-bananas.jpg?resize=1400%2C932&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saga-bananas.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saga-bananas.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saga-bananas.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saga-bananas.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photos by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiyackeyS\/status\/1265648603747373056\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">MiyackeyS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all of our Kyushu &#038; Fukuoka local news reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first harvest of \u2018Kami Banana\u2019 (God Bananas) in Miyaki Town, Saga, took place on May 27. The town has been working to develop a new specialty fruit, in collaboration with a Kagoshima-based company. Amongst approximately 400 banana trees, some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29452,"featured_media":132445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-132444","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-saga-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/132444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}