{"id":22384,"date":"2018-01-28T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22384"},"modified":"2018-01-28T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T14:42:22","slug":"new-usps-stamp-honors-hawaii-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/01\/28\/new-usps-stamp-honors-hawaii-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"New USPS stamp honors Hawaii attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Participants at the special dedication ceremony display Byodo-In Temple stamp artwork near the landmark building. From left are Dennis Boser, area general manager, Valley of the Temples Memorial Park; Kaneohe Postmaster Kanani Alos; Carole Hayashino, Japanese Cultural Center president and executive director; and Glen Sears, Byodo-In Temple project engineer and overall project manager.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n

USPS 1\/25\/18 – To Carole Hayashino and many other residents of Hawaii, the Byodo-In Temple is much more than a building.<\/p>\n

The temple, located in Kaneohe on the island of O\u2019ahu, also symbolizes many of the things that make Hawaii unique.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile this beautiful Byodo-In Temple today stands as a symbol of Japanese culture and tradition, it is also a symbol of friendship between Japan and Hawaii,\u201d said Hayashino, president of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Hayashino spoke at a special dedication this week for the Byodo-In Temple stamp, a $6.70 Priority Mail stamp that features a colorful illustration of the popular tourist attraction.<\/p>\n

USPS\u00a0issued the stamp<\/a><\/em>, along with a $24.70 Priority Mail Express stamp, Jan. 21.<\/p>\n

The temple is a smaller-scale concrete replica of a wooden Buddhist structure located in Uji, Japan, that dates to the middle of the 11th century. The Hawaii Byodo-In Temple was built in 1968 to commemorate the centennial of the first Japanese immigration to Hawaii.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis temple represents and recognizes the spirit of the \u2026 first generation of immigrants from Japan who paved the way for future generations of Japanese in Hawaii,\u201d Hayashino said.<\/p>\n

Kaneohe Postmaster Kanani Alos said having a local landmark on a stamp is special.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil a new Priority Mail stamp is issued next year, anyone in the U.S., from Maine to Manoa, from Kaneohe to Kansas City, can share the beauty of the Byodo-In Temple by using this stamp,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Byodo-In Temple is one of two new stamps that have Hawaiian connections. USPS also\u00a0dedicated its Year of the Dog stamp<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the latest entry in the Celebrating Lunar New Year series \u2014 in Honolulu this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Participants at the special dedication ceremony display Byodo-In Temple stamp artwork near the landmark building. From left are Dennis Boser, area general manager, Valley of the Temples Memorial Park; Kaneohe Postmaster Kanani Alos; Carole Hayashino, Japanese Cultural Center president and executive director; and Glen Sears, Byodo-In Temple project engineer and overall project manager. USPS 1\/25\/18 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22386,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384\/revisions\/22386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}