{"id":135938,"date":"2020-09-30T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T02:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=135938&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-09-30T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T02:07:33","slug":"tokyo-2020-torch-relay-coming-to-fukuoka-in-may","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/tokyo-2020-torch-relay-coming-to-fukuoka-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay Coming to Fukuoka in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sep. 28, the prefecture rekindled the countdown as the organizing committee announced revised details for the delayed torch relay. The torch would begin its Kyushu journey from Oita (Apr. 23~24,) travel through different prefectures until it reaches Fukuoka. While the committee intends to keep the original route, it is considering downscaling celebration events at each spot. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/tokyo2020.org\/ja\/torch\/route\/fukuoka\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tokyo 2020<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20200929\/ddl\/k40\/040\/411000c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mainichi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135939\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/olympic-torch.jpeg?resize=1400%2C788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/olympic-torch.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/olympic-torch.jpeg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/olympic-torch.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/olympic-torch.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tokyo2020seika\/status\/1245274184202108928\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tokyo 2020 Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sep. 28, the prefecture rekindled the countdown as the organizing committee announced revised details for the delayed torch relay. The torch would begin its Kyushu journey from Oita (Apr. 23~24,) travel through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":135939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-135938","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/135938","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}