{"id":15,"date":"2006-10-17T09:43:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T00:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2015-10-25T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T18:00:54","slug":"hikone-castle-at-2007-sapporo-snow-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/hikone-castle-at-2007-sapporo-snow-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikone Castle at 2007 Sapporo Snow Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=25\">Hikone Castle<\/a> will be one of the major snow sculptures at next year&#8217;s Sapporo Snow Festival in Feb. It will be the 400th anniversary of the castle, and Hikone is holding various events next year. I&#8217;m sure they are extremely happy that the castle will be built at the snow festival. It&#8217;s very good PR.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to the snow festival once, and I have to call it one of Japan&#8217;s Top Five Festivals. It&#8217;s truly awesome. And also very international with many groups from overseas carving smaller snow sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is that it is impossible to get a cheap hotel room during the festival. It might be best to stay at a hotel in a nearby city or onsen instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Hikone Castle will be one of the major snow sculptures at next year&#8217;s Sapporo Snow Festival in Feb. It will be the 400th anniversary of the castle, and Hikone is holding various events next year. I&#8217;m sure they&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter","category-hikone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}