{"id":89252,"date":"2019-09-11T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:52:24","slug":"onam-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/onam-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Onam festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>President of India has greeted the citizens of the country on the eve of Onam festival.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Onam festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Onam is the biggest and the most important festival of the state of Kerala.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It is a harvest festival and is celebrated in the beginning of the month of Chingam,the first month of Malayalam Calendar (Kollavarsham).This corresponds with the month of August-September according to Gregorian Calendar.<\/li><li>According to a popular legend,the festival is celebrated to welcome King Mahabali whose spirit is said to visit Kerala at the time of Onam.<\/li><li>The most important part of the festival is Onasadya.It is considered to be the most elaborate and grand meal prepared by any civilisation or cultures in the world.<\/li><li>Another key feature is Vallamkali, the Snake Boat Race.The event is promoted as a major tourist attraction of the state of Kerala and draws a large number of domestic and international tourists.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:President of India has greeted the citizens of the country on the eve of Onam festival. Facts: About the Onam festival: Onam is the biggest and the most important festival of the state of Kerala.&nbsp; It is a harvest festival and is celebrated in the beginning of the month of Chingam,the first month of Malayalam&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/onam-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Onam 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":[1760],"tags":[1748,2166],"class_list":["post-89252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-kerala","tag-onam-festival","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704869334},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89252","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=89252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}