{"id":3964,"date":"2023-11-12T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2023-11-12T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T15:48:42","slug":"happy-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3964","title":{"rendered":"Happy Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People in our neighborhood are from India. I\u2019ve spent a little time in India, and and was aware that today, November 12, is special day \u2014 in fact it\u2019s a public holiday in India.\u00a0<br>Diwali, or Deepawali is a festival of lights symbolizing the victory of righteousness and the lifting of spiritual darkness. It\u2019s one of the most popular festivals on the Hindu calendar.\u00a0<br>It commemorates Lord Rama\u2019s return to his kingdom of Ayodhya after completing his 14-year exile.<br>Many Buddhists in India mark the anniversary of the Emperor Ashoka\u2019s conversion Buddhism around the time of Diwali.\u00a0<br>Followers of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism observe various customs that are related to Diwali.<br>Electric lights, small oil lamps made of clay and their flames are important Diwali symbols \u2014 they represent both physical and spiritual aspects of light\u2026..<br>To our Indian friends, especially, may your life be as colorful and bright as the lights of Diwali. Happy Diwali.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in our neighborhood are from India. I\u2019ve spent a little time in India, and and was aware that today, November 12, is special day \u2014 in fact it\u2019s a public holiday in India.\u00a0Diwali, or Deepawali is a festival of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3964\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}