{"id":76163,"date":"2012-08-09T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T09:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?p=26696"},"modified":"2016-04-01T01:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:35:20","slug":"uchimizu-at-hakata-station-ekimae-hiroba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/uchimizu-at-hakata-station-ekimae-hiroba\/","title":{"rendered":"Uchimizu at Hakata Station Ekimae Hiroba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 8, Fukuoka Now\u2019s Nick and Ellery went along and joined in on the splashing fun of \u201cUchimizu\u201d at the Hakata Station Ekimae Hiroba. Japan\u2019s traditional technique of \u201cuchimizu\u201d \u2013 or splashing water on the ground may sound simple, but it works! Uchimizu can actually lower air temperatures noticeably! The event included 16:00 furin (wind chime) painting, a special address from Fukuoka City Vice-Mayor and explanation of \u201cCool Share\u201d, and the grand finale of uchimizu! Beautiful girls in fresh summer yukata helped to get the crowd in the mood, and all who took part in the splashing had fun lowering the air temperatures outside Hakata Station! 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\u201cUchimizu\u201d at the Hakata Station Ekimae Hiroba. Japan\u2019s traditional technique of \u201cuchimizu\u201d \u2013 or splashing water on the ground may sound simple, but it works! Uchimizu can actually lower air temperatures noticeably! The event included 16:00 furin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":26697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"26696","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","location-hakata","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/uchimizu-080812-154.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85121,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76163\/revisions\/85121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}