{"id":4318,"date":"2009-11-06T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/wordpress\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2009-10-21T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T18:48:42","slug":"plan-your-weekend-taiko-drumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2009\/11\/exhibit-news\/plan-your-weekend-taiko-drumming\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Your Weekend: Taiko Drumming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border:solid 1px; border-color:#999; padding-top:10px; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px;  padding-left:10px;  \">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Thrilling Japanese Art Form on Conservatory Lawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thundering and thrilling, the <em>taiko<\/em> (Japanese drum) has been called \u201cthe voice and spirit of the Japanese people.\u201d From its roots in agriculture and the ancient music of shrines and temples, traditional <em>taiko<\/em> folk music is believed to entertain the gods, attract good fortune, drive away evil forces and insects, lend strength and courage to warriors, and celebrate life.<\/p>\n<p>Each weekend during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/kiku09\/\">Kiku <em>in the Japanese Autumn Garden<\/a><\/em> experience the sounds of both ancient and modern Japan by the group Taiko Masala on the Conservatory Lawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/visit_the_garden\/tickets.php\">Get Your Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DbtfL0YSZXA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thrilling Japanese Art Form on Conservatory Lawn Thundering and thrilling, the taiko (Japanese drum) has been called \u201cthe voice and spirit of the Japanese people.\u201d From its roots in agriculture and the ancient music of shrines and temples, traditional taiko folk music is believed to entertain the gods, attract good fortune, drive away evil forces&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2009\/11\/exhibit-news\/plan-your-weekend-taiko-drumming\/\" title=\"ReadPlan Your Weekend: Taiko Drumming\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"btn btn-info\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/button><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,50,17,20],"tags":[465,4624,464],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-17E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}