{"id":84972,"date":"2020-04-17T01:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14854"},"modified":"2020-04-17T01:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:27:41","slug":"meru-jatra-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/meru-jatra-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Meru Jatra Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Odisha\u2019s Ganjam district administration has banned the Meru Jatra festival and congregations due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Meru Jatra marks the end of the 21-day-long festival of penance named \u2018Danda Nata\u2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Danda Nata Festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a 21-day long seasonal folk dance festival that is celebrated in the month of &#8216;Chaitra&#8217;.<\/li><li>During the festival, people who participate in the festival(Danduas) undergo self-inflicted pain to pay their obeisance to the lord Kali.It is also a form of worshipping the lord Shiva and his consort Parvati.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Odisha\u2019s Ganjam district administration has banned the Meru Jatra festival and congregations due to Covid-19. Facts: Meru Jatra marks the end of the 21-day-long festival of penance named \u2018Danda Nata\u2019. Danda Nata Festival: It is a 21-day long seasonal folk dance festival that is celebrated in the month of &#8216;Chaitra&#8217;. During the festival, people who&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/meru-jatra-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meru Jatra Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2087],"class_list":["post-84972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-meru-jatra-festival","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704614432},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}