{"id":3212,"date":"2024-03-03T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2024-02-29T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:41:05","slug":"hinamatsuri-3-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/03\/03\/hinamatsuri-3-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinamatsuri 3 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-3-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3213\" width=\"353\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-3-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-3-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-3-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 85vw, 353px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Hinamatsuri is an annual festival that takes place on March 3rd and is associated with the start of spring. It is known as \u2018Girls Day\u2019 in English. The festival prays for the growth and prosperity of young girls.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-1.jpg 319w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/02\/hina-1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 85vw, 319px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>One way it is celebrated is with the display of traditional Japanese dolls called hinaningyo at home. The dolls are said to ward off misery. There are certain foods associated with the festival such as Hishi Mochi, a type of cake and Hina arare which are sweet rice crackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinamatsuri is an annual festival that takes place on March 3rd and is associated with the start of spring. It is known as \u2018Girls Day\u2019 in English. The festival prays for the growth and prosperity of young girls. One way it is celebrated is with the display of traditional Japanese dolls called hinaningyo at home. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/03\/03\/hinamatsuri-3-march-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hinamatsuri 3 March&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}