{"id":41306,"date":"2015-02-08T01:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41306"},"modified":"2015-02-08T01:19:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:19:46","slug":"manila-cathedral-featured-in-japan-ice-sculpture-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/08\/manila-cathedral-featured-in-japan-ice-sculpture-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Manila Cathedral featured in Japan ice sculpture festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41337\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Manila-Cathedral-Sapporo-Japan-Snow-Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41337\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Manila-Cathedral-Sapporo-Japan-Snow-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"Rowie Agustin \/ Facebook\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Manila-Cathedral-Sapporo-Japan-Snow-Festival.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Manila-Cathedral-Sapporo-Japan-Snow-Festival-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rowie Agustin \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A snow sculpture of the 400-year-old Manila Cathedral has been featured in this year\u2019s 66th Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido, Japan, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>DOT said that Hokkaido\u2019s seven-day festival transforms Sapporo into a glittering world of snow and ice sculptures of some of the most famous architectural wonders of historical significance from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The festival kicked off on Thursday (Feb. 5) and will run until Feb. 11 (Wednesday). It is one of country\u2019s largest winter events, expected to draw more than two million visitors this year.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Manila Cathedral, other architectural wonders featured in the festival include Taiwan\u2019s Hsing Tian Kong Temple, Nara, Japan\u2019s Middle Gate of Kasuga Taisha Shrine, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures were built by some 400 Japanese army troops who volunteered to sculpt the creations in only about a month\u2019s worth of time.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organizers of the festival, Japanese military has been participating in festival since 1955, and considers the process of building sculptures up to 50 feet-tall a training exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines is honored to be featured in this year&#8217;s 66th Sapporo Snow Festival,\u201d the DOT posted on its social media accounts, Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for the love, Japan!\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A snow sculpture of the 400-year-old Manila Cathedral has been featured in this year\u2019s 66th Sapporo Snow Festival &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-travel","mauthors-azer-n-parrocha","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}