{"id":494,"date":"2025-03-01T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=494"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:49:51","slug":"march-3-2013-doll-festival-hina-matsuri-or-girls-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/03\/01\/march-3-2013-doll-festival-hina-matsuri-or-girls-day\/","title":{"rendered":"March 3, 2025: Doll Festival (Hina-matsuri) or Girls\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hina-Matsuri-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-495\" title=\"Hina Matsuri 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Hina-Matsuri-2013-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0<a title=\"Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\">Japanese<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Doll Festival<\/strong>\u00a0(\u96db\u796d\u308a\u00a0<em>Hina-matsuri<\/em>), or\u00a0<strong>Girls\u2019 Day<\/strong>, is held on March 3.\u00a0\u00a0Platforms covered with a\u00a0<a title=\"Red carpet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_carpet\">red carpet<\/a>\u00a0are used to display a set of ornamental dolls\u00a0(\u96db\u4eba\u5f62<em>hina-ningy\u014d<\/em>)\u00a0representing the\u00a0<a title=\"Emperor of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emperor_of_Japan\">Emperor<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Japanese empresses\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_empresses\">Empress<\/a>, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the\u00a0<a title=\"Heian period\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heian_period\">Heian period<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Japanese\u00a0Doll Festival\u00a0(\u96db\u796d\u308a\u00a0Hina-matsuri), or\u00a0Girls\u2019 Day, is held on March 3.\u00a0\u00a0Platforms covered with a\u00a0red carpet\u00a0are used to display a set of ornamental dolls\u00a0(\u96db\u4eba\u5f62hina-ningy\u014d)\u00a0representing the\u00a0Emperor,\u00a0Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the\u00a0Heian period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}