{"id":14069,"date":"2018-07-04T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=14069"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:13:06","slug":"gion-matsuri-one-of-kyotos-grandest-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/gion-matsuri-one-of-kyotos-grandest-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Gion Matsuri! The Mardi Gras of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nGion Matsuri celebrated in July is one of the most popular festivals in Japan attracting millions of tourist to Kyoto. This religious festival dates back to the 9th century when locals appeased the gods during times of illness. Participants attend a grand parade of floats called Yamaboko Junko, and the<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> two types of floats used in the Gion Matsuri are called \u201cYama and Hoko\u201d (collectively called Yamaboko, or Yamahoko). <\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Both Yama and Hoko are considered &#8220;art in motion&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantesol.com\/\">American TESOL offers a certification to teach English abroad<\/a>&nbsp;so individuals can attend these exciting events in a sustainable and responsible way.&nbsp; Learn more about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/teach-in-Japan.htm\">living and working in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gion Matsuri celebrated in July is one of the most popular festivals in Japan attracting millions of tourist to Kyoto. This religious festival dates back to the 9th century when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1122],"tags":[1891,971,972,180,1813,1932,970],"class_list":["post-14069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-go-teach-abroad","tag-teachabroad","tag-japan-jobs-certification","tag-kyoto","tag-teach-abroad","tag-teach-abroad-explore-japan","tag-teach-abroad-series","tag-teaching-english-in-kyoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14069"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15683,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14069\/revisions\/15683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}