{"id":1528,"date":"2018-08-16T22:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2019-01-04T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:26:08","slug":"vol14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/en\/event\/vol14\/","title":{"rendered":"vol.14:The Daimonji Festival on August 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Gozan Okuribi&#8221; &#8211; known as the Daimonji Festival &#8211;  occurs annually on August 16th beginning at 8 p.m.<br \/>\nYou can see all five fires on the five mountains of Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p>During the Obon holiday, it&#8217;s believed that deceased ancestors return from the afterlife to visit the living.<br \/>\nThe Daimonji festival marks the end of their stay and guides the dead back to heaven with its burning fires.<\/p>\n<p>It is different from the gorgeous festival like the Gion festival, we keep quietly watching while the fire gains momentum,weakens and disappears.<\/p>\n<p>The time with fire is very short, about 30 minutes. We recommend that you arrive at a places of observation before 8 o&#8217;clock.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/media\/koi\/sites\/10\/20180816_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1104\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Gozan Okuribi&#8221; &#8211; known as the Daimonji Festival &#8211; occurs annually on August 16th beginning at 8 p.m. You can see all five fires on the five mountains of Kyoto. During the Obon holiday, it&#8217;s believed that deceased ancestors return from the afterlife to visit the living. The Daimonji festival marks the end of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1526"},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyonaka-gozan.kyoto\/koi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}