{"id":1237,"date":"2025-01-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:57:14","slug":"2-february-2021-setsubun-bean-throwing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/01\/09\/2-february-2021-setsubun-bean-throwing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"3 February, 2025: Setsubun, Bean Throwing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis: 100%;\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns: 34% auto;\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Setsubun-150x150.jpg'); background-position: 50% 50%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-1256 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Setsubun-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<p>Setsubun (\u7bc0\u5206, &#8220;seasonal division&#8221;) is a festival held on\u00a0<strong>February 2<\/strong>, 3 or 4, one day before the start of spring according to the Japanese lunar calendar. It is not a national holiday. For many centuries, people have been performing rituals with the purpose of chasing away evil spirits at the start of spring.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setsubun (\u7bc0\u5206, &#8220;seasonal division&#8221;) is a festival held on\u00a0February 2, 3 or 4, one day before the start of spring according to the Japanese lunar calendar. It is not a national holiday. For many centuries, people have been performing rituals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/01\/09\/2-february-2021-setsubun-bean-throwing-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}