{"id":22097,"date":"2023-01-08T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/08\/worshippers-in-tokyo-plunge-into-ice-bath-to-mark-new-year\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:10:44","slug":"worshippers-in-tokyo-plunge-into-ice-bath-to-mark-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=22097","title":{"rendered":"Worshippers in Tokyo plunge into ice bath to mark new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Devotees of a shrine in Tokyo welcomed the new year with an ice-cold bath in an annual tradition that goes back 68 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Forty people took part in the event at Teppozu Inari Shrine on Sunday, where men and women donned loincloths and white gowns before plunging into water filled with ice blocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Shinto ritual is said to purify the soul and bring good health in the new year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-64204724?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Devotees of a shrine in Tokyo welcomed the new year with an ice-cold bath in an annual tradition that goes back 68 years. Forty people took part in the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}