{"id":88852,"date":"2019-02-21T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T07:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T07:27:26","slug":"attukal-pongala-begins-in-thiruvananthapuram-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/attukal-pongala-begins-in-thiruvananthapuram-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Attukal Pongala begins in Thiruvananthapuram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Attukal Pongala has begun in Thiruvananthapuram,\nKerala. The Attukal Pongala festival is held annually in Attukal Bhagvati Temple\nin Thiruvananthapuram. The temple is popularly known as the \u201cWomen Sabarimala\u201d.\n<\/li><li>Pongala, which means &#8216;to boil over\u2019, is the\nritual in which women prepare sweet payasam and offer it the main deity\n\u2018Bhagavathy\u2019, also referred to as \u2018Attukalamma\u2019. The festival is a 10 days\nfestival which falls during Malayalam month of Kumbham.<\/li><li>In 2009, the Attukal Pongala festival entered\nthe Guinness Book of Records as the largest gathering of women.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attukal Pongala has begun in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Attukal Pongala festival is held annually in Attukal Bhagvati Temple in Thiruvananthapuram. The temple is popularly known as the \u201cWomen Sabarimala\u201d. Pongala, which means &#8216;to boil over\u2019, is the ritual in which women prepare sweet payasam and offer it the main deity \u2018Bhagavathy\u2019, also referred to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/attukal-pongala-begins-in-thiruvananthapuram-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attukal Pongala begins in Thiruvananthapuram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[673,6163],"class_list":["post-88852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-art-and-culture","tag-festivals","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704406393},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88852","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=88852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}