{"id":766,"date":"2015-07-02T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/?p=766"},"modified":"2015-07-02T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T17:03:49","slug":"this-month-in-japan-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"This Month in Japan | July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koyomi07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/koyomi07.jpg\" alt=\"koyomi07\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Fumizuki<\/i>, a traditional name for July, refers to \u201cbook\/origin month.\u201d There are several theories behind the true meaning of this kanji combination, one being that\u00a0<i>fumizuki<\/i>\u00a0is a shortened form of\u00a0<i>hofumizuki<\/i>, referring to a time when rice becomes ready for harvest. Another possible explanation is that the name is short for\u00a0<i>fumihirakizuki<\/i>, meaning to hope for an improvement in one&#8217;s calligraphy skills.<\/p>\n<p>During this month, Tanabata, is celebrated on the seventh and Marine Day, the third Monday of the month, commemorates the return of Emperor Meiji to Yokohama port from a boat trip to Hokkaido in 1876.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0013729e48090f8f1b0b03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-772\" src=\"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0013729e48090f8f1b0b03-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"0013729e48090f8f1b0b03\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0013729e48090f8f1b0b03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0013729e48090f8f1b0b03-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0013729e48090f8f1b0b03.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumizuki, a traditional name for July, refers to \u201cbook\/origin month.\u201d There are several theories behind the true meaning of this kanji combination, one being that\u00a0fumizuki\u00a0is a shortened form of\u00a0hofumizuki, referring to a time when rice becomes ready for harvest. Another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/?p=766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biculturalhealth.apacommnet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}