{"id":12939,"date":"2014-05-23T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=12939"},"modified":"2014-12-15T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:28:36","slug":"ancient-architecture-on-a-modern-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/ancient-architecture-on-a-modern-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient architecture on a modern foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12940\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/136_8665-RAW-Shofukuji-\u8056\u798f\u5bfa.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12940\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/136_8665-RAW-Shofukuji-\u8056\u798f\u5bfa-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"Shofukuji \u8056\u798f\u5bfa\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/136_8665-RAW-Shofukuji-\u8056\u798f\u5bfa-800x463.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/136_8665-RAW-Shofukuji-\u8056\u798f\u5bfa-250x144.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/136_8665-RAW-Shofukuji-\u8056\u798f\u5bfa.jpg 1865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butsuden (\u4ecf\u6bbf) @ Shofukuji (\u8056\u798f\u5bfa) &#8211; (Fukuoka \u798f\u5ca1)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a country that rains as much as Japan, a wooden foundation for a structure isn&#8217;t going to stand up to the elements well. On the other hand, a concrete foundation like this one may take a little something away from the 400+ year old building it supports. Originally built in 1589, this temple appears to have been freshened up fairly recently.<\/p>\n<p>Inside this structure are <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/butsuden-hall\/>three golden Buddha statues<\/a>. Every month on the 15th a ceremony is held here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country that rains as much as Japan, a wooden foundation for a structure isn&#8217;t going to stand up to the elements well. On the other hand, a concrete foundation like this one may take a little something away from the 400+ year old building it supports. Originally built in 1589, this temple appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,451,447,429,504,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13729,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12939\/revisions\/13729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}