{"id":116578,"date":"2016-03-24T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/116578\/happy-holi\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:35:59","slug":"happy-holi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/24\/happy-holi\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holi (\u0939\u094b\u0932\u0940) is a colourful and happy Hindu holiday celebrated in India and South Africa on the last full moon of the lunar month of Phalguna at the end of the winter season in India. It is also known as the Festival of Colours.<\/p>\n<p>Holi is one of India\u2019s grandest and most popular celebrations.The Holi festival traditionally celebrates the victory of good over evil. It is associated with many legends, including the story of Holika.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The ancient Hindu festival has now become very popular and is also celebrated by the Indian diaspora and non-Hindus across the world.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9o1rWMtfPsc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='bfb423a219f70d27c391fd1089629f2b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all who celebrate this Hindu festival &#8211; happy Festival of Colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":116579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10327,10328,10329,10330],"class_list":["post-116578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-festival-of-colours","tag-happy-holi","tag-hindu-holiday","tag-triumph-of-good-over-evil"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Festival of Colours","Happy Holi","Hindu Holiday","triumph of good over evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}