{"id":4514,"date":"2017-01-16T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T01:47:07","slug":"new-years-mochi-making-at-kodo-village-by-shingo-kawamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20170116_4514.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New Year&#8217;s Mochi Making at Kodo Village&#8221; by Shingo Kawamura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20170116_4514.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20170116_4514.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;New Year&#8217;s Mochi Making at Kodo Village&#8221; by Shingo Kawamura\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jan. 14, 2017<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\nNew Year&#8217;s\u00a0Mochi Making at Kodo Village<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S__18309125.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11818 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S__18309125-340x453.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Shingo Kawamura\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Kodo Village is covered in deep snow and has been since we returned from our winter vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the cold conditions, we are all keeping well!<\/p>\n<p>Today we enjoyed one of Kodo Village&#8217;s annual events: mochi making.<br \/>\nMochi is a traditional Japanese pounded rice cake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shingo01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11828 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shingo01-340x488.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Shingo Kawamura\" width=\"340\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The young members did a lot of the rice pounding and the village was buzzing as everyone excitedly enjoyed the freshly made mochi.<br \/>\nThis Japanese soul food gave us all a boost to start the new year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S__18317317.jpeg-f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11829 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S__18317317.jpeg-f-340x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Shingo Kawamura\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S__18317318.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11824 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/S__18317318-340x453.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: Shingo Kawamura\" width=\"340\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Kodo, I will take this opportunity to ask all of you for your continued encouragement throughout the new year ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 14, 2017 New Year&#8217;s\u00a0Mochi Making at Kodo Village As you can see, Kodo Village is covered in deep snow and has been since we returned from our winter vacation. Despite the cold conditions, we are all keeping well! Today we enjoyed one of Kodo Village&#8217;s annual events: mochi making. Mochi is a traditional Japanese pounded rice cake. The young members did a lot of the rice pounding and the village was buzzing as everyone excitedly enjoyed the freshly made mochi. This Japanese soul food gave us all a boost to start the new year. On behalf of Kodo, I will take this opportunity to ask all of you for &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20170116_4514.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,304,32,49,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4519,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}