{"id":1536,"date":"2013-01-21T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2020-02-11T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:47:13","slug":"katsube-shrine-fire-festival-video-by-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/katsube-shrine-fire-festival-video-by-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Katsube Shrine Fire Festival video by kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-SfD9DFxOg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video link:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/n-SfD9DFxOg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/n-SfD9DFxOg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my cutest video of Shiga so far. I have three Japanese kids from Shiga who appear as my English reporters in this video of <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=190\">Katsube Shrine Fire Festival<\/a> held on Jan. 12, 2013 in <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Moriyama,_Shiga\">Moriyama<\/a>. The youngest one is age 4.<\/p>\n<p>All three kids are studying English and were eager to speak English as they witnessed the festival. Although I coached their English on the spot, it&#8217;s mostly unrehearsed and they were free to say anything in English. I want the kids (and parents) to discover\/rediscover and experience their hometowns and become proud and proficient enough to tell other people about it. As you will see, it&#8217;s a lot more interesting (and cute) to have ordinary local folks introduce their towns rather than foreigners (including myself) or professional reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, I&#8217;ve never had any narrators or reporters in my video clips of Japan. I don&#8217;t ever appear or narrate my videos either since I don&#8217;t want to divert any attention to me. The kids enjoyed it and want to do it again along with a bunch of their friends (and other parents). If you know of any kids who are studying English and willing to appear in my videos, let me know. This is a totally voluntary and non-profit project.<\/p>\n<p>More photos of Katsube Shrine Fire Festival: <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=190\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=190<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/nfZJh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Map for Katsube Shrine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video link:&nbsp;http:\/\/youtu.be\/n-SfD9DFxOg This is my cutest video of Shiga so far. I have three Japanese kids from Shiga who appear as my English reporters in this video of Katsube Shrine Fire Festival held on Jan. 12, 2013 in Moriyama. The&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-winter","category-moriyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","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=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7053,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/7053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}