{"id":139642,"date":"2021-03-25T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T07:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=139642&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T07:52:52","slug":"lottery-for-seats-to-view-torch-relay-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/lottery-for-seats-to-view-torch-relay-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottery For Seats To View Torch Relay Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lottery to choose viewers of the Olympic Torch Relay event in Fukuoka is taking place, with applications accepted until April 11. Approximately 1,300 seats are available for May 11 (venue: Heiwadai Track and Field Stadium) and May 12 (venue: Kanmon Strait Museum). Online and mail applications are accepted between 3\/24 ~ 4\/11. Viewers will be selected by lottery if the number of applications exceeds that of available seats. More details are available here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/contents\/application-celebration.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/contents\/application-celebration.html<\/span><\/a>\u3000<b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210323\/5010011321.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-139643\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/torch.jpg?resize=1024%2C781&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/torch.jpg?resize=1024%2C781&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/torch.jpg?resize=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/torch.jpg?resize=768%2C585&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/torch.jpg?w=1186&amp;ssl=1 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tokyo2020seika\/?hl=ja\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0official Instagram<\/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. 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Approximately 1,300 seats are available for May 11 (venue: Heiwadai Track and Field Stadium) and May 12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":139643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-139642","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/139642","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=139642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}