{"id":31392,"date":"2022-07-15T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/why-so-many-unofficial-food-days-in-japan#id32148"},"modified":"2022-07-15T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:31:00","slug":"why-so-many-unofficial-food-days-in-japan-puns-language-puzzles-historical-events-and-sometimes-because-industry-says-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/why-so-many-unofficial-food-days-in-japan-puns-language-puzzles-historical-events-and-sometimes-because-industry-says-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so many unofficial food days in Japan? Puns, language puzzles, historical events, and sometimes because industry says so."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Take <em>Banana no hi <\/em>(Banana Day). Broken down, the Japanese pronunciation&mdash;ba-na-na&mdash;corresponds to the Japanese for eight (ba) and seven (nana). The seventh day of the eighth month, August 7, thus becomes &ldquo;Banana Day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/japanese-food-holidays\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/why-so-many-unofficial-food-days-in-japan\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Take Banana no hi (Banana Day). Broken down, the Japanese pronunciation&mdash;ba-na-na&mdash;corresponds to the Japanese for eight (ba) and seven (nana). The seventh day of the eighth month, August 7, thus becomes &ldquo;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31393,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392\/revisions\/31393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}