{"id":2328,"date":"2011-08-12T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T02:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:54:36","slug":"obon-japanese-kanji-symbols-for-bon-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/en\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/obon-japanese-kanji-symbols-for-bon-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Obon&#8221; &#8211; Japanese Kanji Symbols for Bon Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"obon by japanese-kanjisymbols, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/japanese-kanjisymbols\/6034245750\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6143\/6034245750_22e6c81ced.jpg\" alt=\"obon\" width=\"320\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>I wrote \u201c<strong>Obon<\/strong>\u201d. It means \u201c<strong>Bon Festival<\/strong>\u201d in English.<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-position: inside;\">\n<li>\u201cO\u201d is honorific prefix<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBon\u201d means Tray<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Obon is\u00a0 the event to honor the departed soul of one&#8217;s ancestors. In Obon season, the soul of ancestors come home. So, we invite them and hold a service and make a seeing off.<\/p>\n<p>In the area where I live, Obon starts from August 13.<\/p>\n<p>What is your favorite word about <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/seasons\/\">season<\/a>? I\u2019m waiting for a request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote \u201cObon\u201d. It means \u201cBon Festival\u201d in English. \u201cO\u201d is honorific prefix \u201cBon\u201d means Tray Obon is\u00a0 the even&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/en\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/obon-japanese-kanji-symbols-for-bon-festival\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"2328","footnotes":""},"categories":[188,191],"tags":[54,331],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seasons","category-summer","tag-beibu","tag-sara","en-US"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japanese-kanjisymbols.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}