{"id":6471,"date":"2017-06-12T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2017-06-12T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T03:25:38","slug":"rice-planting-in-toho-mura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/2017\/06\/rice-planting-in-toho-mura\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice planting in Toho-mura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our annual trip to Toho-Mura for our Eco-Tourism project was held on June 10-11. We spent a very enjoyable weekend planting rice and sweet potatoes, lighting fires to heat bath water, attending a &#8220;fire festival&#8221; in a local village, and making (and eating) soba noodles. Lots of fun with our English Dept. students and the 4 students from The University of Winchester.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6471 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6472\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6472'>\n\t\t\t\tReady for work!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-9.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-9-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6473\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6473'>\n\t\t\t\tStill clean.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-16.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-16-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6474\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6474'>\n\t\t\t\tPlanting time.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure 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aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6476\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6476'>\n\t\t\t\tAlmost finished\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-56.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-56-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6477\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6477'>\n\t\t\t\tFinished!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-58.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-58-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6478\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6478'>\n\t\t\t\tSweet potato planting\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-66.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/toho-66-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6479\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6479'>\n\t\t\t\tThanks to local farmers\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure 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We spent a very enjoyable weekend planting rice and sweet potatoes, lighting fires to heat bath water, attending a &#8220;fire festival&#8221; in a local village, and making (and eating) soba noodles. Lots of fun with our English Dept. students and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[172,171,39],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-rice-panting","tag-toho","tag-winchester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6485,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions\/6485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}