{"id":81659,"date":"2015-02-19T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81659\/celebrate-year-goat\/"},"modified":"2015-02-19T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:06:19","slug":"celebrate-year-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2015\/02\/19\/celebrate-year-goat\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Year of the Goat or Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, the Chinese have always used \u2018San Yang Kai Tai\u2019 to wish everyone a prosperous upcoming year.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018san\u2019 (pronounce sun) happens to be a homophone for the word for \u2018goat\u2019 in Chinese.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The goat has a gentle, loving nature; \u2018sun\u2019 warms up the world, bringing harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Together, with a play on words, a phrase for the combination of peace and warmth can be brought about, known as \u2018San Yang He Xie\u2019 (Auspicious Beginnings of Peace and Harmony).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>People born in a Year of the Goat are generally believed to be gentle mild-mannered, shy, stable, sympathetic, amicable, and brimming with a strong sense of kindheartedness and justice.<\/p>\n<p>They have very delicate thoughts, strong creativity and perseverance, and acquire professional skills well.<\/p>\n<p>Although they look gentle on the surface, they are tough on the inside, always insisting on their own opinions in their minds.<\/p>\n<p>They have strong inner resilience and excellent defensive instincts.<\/p>\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='5c541c5d8f079d37a59c3fd1b5dec15a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, February 19, is the beginning of the Year of the Goat or Sheep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":81675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686],"tags":[4843,6605,1648,3213,2362,6606,6607],"class_list":["post-81659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","tag-china","tag-chinese-celebrations","tag-gauteng","tag-johannesburg","tag-south-africa","tag-special-days","tag-year-of-the-goat"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["china","chinese celebrations","Gauteng","Johannesburg","South Africa","special days","year of the goat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81659","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}