{"id":492,"date":"2012-02-03T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/setsubun-throw-beans-around-for-good-luck\/"},"modified":"2012-02-03T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T04:05:07","slug":"setsubun-throw-beans-around-for-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/setsubun-throw-beans-around-for-good-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Setsubun &#8211; throw beans around for good luck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/6811612421\/in\/photostream\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7011\/6811612421_2a021556a1_m.jpg\" alt=\"A demon!\"\/><br \/>\nA demon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/6811612839\/in\/photostream\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7153\/6811612839_ff085e1ee0_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ready the beans!\"\/><br \/>\nReady the beans!<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fugutabetai\/6811613291\/in\/photostream\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7017\/6811613291_c6f6f804c5_m.jpg\" alt=\"Beans away!\"\/><br \/>\nBeans away!<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Setsubun\">Setsubun<\/a>, a day that marks the traditional start of Spring.  Well, I hope it does because it is super cold out here, and getting up and running every morning has been a challenge.  <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>What Setsubun really means is that you buy a bunch of beans of some kind, and throw them outside your house, chanting &#8220;Demons go out, good luck come on in!&#8221;  Or something to the effect.  I took a look around our house, and oh no!  We had a demon infestation!<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>We corrected that with the traditional bean throwing, and even little Alan Yoshiyuki helped out (although he does look suspiciously similar to one of the crying demons I caught on digital film just a little bit earlier.)<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Anyway, happy Setsubun to you all, and I hope that all the demons in your house flee your violently flung beans and make room to let in all the good luck for 2012!<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A demon! Ready the beans! Beans away! Today is Setsubun, a day that marks the traditional start of Spring. Well, I hope it does because it is super cold out here, and getting up and running every morning has been a challenge. What Setsubun really means is that you buy a bunch of beans of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}