{"id":140553,"date":"2021-05-14T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T05:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140553&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-05-14T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T05:15:39","slug":"plum-picking-at-historic-site-in-dazaifu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/plum-picking-at-historic-site-in-dazaifu\/","title":{"rendered":"Plum Picking At Historic Site in Dazaifu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first picking of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ume<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> plum at the ruins of the ancient seat of government in Dazaifu took place on May 13. Thirty-five students at Fukuoka Agricultural High School picked the fruit to use in their new <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ume<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> food product. The historical site has 194 plum trees. However, the use of those resources had been restricted by the country until last year. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210513\/5010011792.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><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-140554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gallery_03552.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gallery_03552.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gallery_03552.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gallery_03552.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gallery_03552.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcomekyushu.jp\/gallery\/?mode=detail&amp;id=3552\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome Kyushu<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Thirty-five students at Fukuoka Agricultural High School picked the fruit to use in their new ume food product. The historical site has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140553","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-dazaifu","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140553","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=140553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}