{"id":41,"date":"2007-10-15T03:30:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=41&amp;language=ja"},"modified":"2007-10-15T03:30:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T12:30:34","slug":"ketchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/festivals\/ketchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never get enough ketchup for your fries here.<\/p>\n<p>I actually just have some catchup to do.  Good thing I didn&#8217;t spell the post title &#8216;catsup.&#8217;  What a stupid spelling.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, I went to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enjoyniigata.com\/en\/event\/\" title=\"Niigata Festivals\">festival<\/a> in Sekikawa (25 minutes to the south by car) called the Taishitamonja Matsuri.  The name is a pun &#8211; <em>taishita <\/em>means huge or significant, <em>mon <\/em>sort of means the thing that is huge or significant, and <em>ja<\/em> is a slangy negative sentence ending which sort of indicates disbelief.  Cleverly, though <em>ja<\/em> also means snake.  So the effective nuanced meaning is something like &#8220;The most unbelievably big snake I have ever seen Festival.&#8221;  It holds the world record for the longest big huge snake that people carry around a town.   Yes, people carry around a 300-foot long, 2-ton snake for several kilometers through the town, all the while chanting and drinking beer and trying to make the snake crash into bystanders.  I finally put up the pictures from this interesting event.<\/p>\n<p>Check them out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/seanholland\/taishitamonja\">Big Huge Snake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never get enough ketchup for your fries here. I actually just have some catchup to do. Good thing I didn&#8217;t spell the post title &#8216;catsup.&#8217; What a stupid spelling. Back in August, I went to a festival in Sekikawa (25 minutes to the south by car) called the Taishitamonja Matsuri. The name is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals","category-murakami","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}