{"id":13085,"date":"2010-01-13T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/happy-lohri-sankranti-and-ponga-4\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:27:52","slug":"happy-lohri-sankranti-and-ponga-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/happy-lohri-sankranti-and-ponga-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy LOHRI, SANKRANTI AND PONGAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.123greetings.com\/events\/makar_sankranti\/sankranti9.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/i.123g.us\/c\/ejan_makarsankranti\/th\/103642_th.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.123greetings.com\/events\/makar_sankranti\/sankranti9.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Send this eCard !<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy LOHRI, SANKRANTI AND PONGAL<\/p>\n<p>to all members, readers and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lohri<\/strong> marks the sun&#8217;s entry in to the &#8216;Makar Rashi&#8217; (northern hemisphere).<br \/>The period, beginning from 14 January lasting till 14 July, is known as Uttarayan.<br \/>It is also the last day of the month of Maargazhi, the ninth month of the lunar calendar.<br \/>The Bhagawad Gita deems it an extremely sacred and auspicious time, when Lord Krishna manifests himself most tangibly. And so, across India, people celebrate the month and the prodigious harvest it brings &#8211; <strong>Pongal<\/strong> in Tamil Nadu, <strong>Bihu<\/strong> in Assam, <strong>Bhogi<\/strong> in<br \/>Andhra Pradesh and the <strong>Sankranti<\/strong> in Karnataka, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dwarka Parichay Team<\/em><\/strong> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send this eCard ! Happy LOHRI, SANKRANTI AND PONGAL to all members, readers and friends. Lohri marks the sun&#8217;s entry in to the &#8216;Makar Rashi&#8217; (northern hemisphere).The period, beginning from 14 January lasting till 14 July, is known as Uttarayan.It is also the last day of the month of Maargazhi, the ninth month of the lunar calendar.The Bhagawad Gita deems it an extremely sacred and auspicious time, when Lord Krishna manifests himself most tangibly. And so, across India, people celebrate the month and the prodigious harvest it brings &#8211; Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Bihu in Assam, Bhogi inAndhra Pradesh and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1879],"class_list":["post-13085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrations","category-update","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48311,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085\/revisions\/48311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}