{"id":4228,"date":"2015-08-17T06:23:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2015-08-17T06:23:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:23:12","slug":"awa-dance-festival-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/awa-dance-festival-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Awa Dance Festival 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class='gallery'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/awa-dance-festival-2015\/11892032_10204485235552240_2727669139236444056_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11892032_10204485235552240_2727669139236444056_n-268x268.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/awa-dance-festival-2015\/11885383_10204485235992251_386974760837137393_n\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11885383_10204485235992251_386974760837137393_n-268x268.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #141823;\">One of the most remarkable events in <strong>Tokushima Prefecture<\/strong> as part of \u00a0the <strong>Obon Festival.\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Awa-Odori<\/strong> is characterized by irregular steps and by the jovial and energetic up-tempo rhythm. Separated into groups of men and women, the dancers parade through the city while dancing to music played on drums, gongs used when praying to Buddha and at festivals, three-stringed Japanese musical instruments, and flutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most remarkable events in Tokushima Prefecture as part of \u00a0the Obon Festival.\u00a0The Awa-Odori is characterized by irregular steps and by the jovial and energetic up-tempo rhythm. Separated into groups of men and women, the dancers parade through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/awa-dance-festival-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alljapantours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}